
“I received a video message from our mobilized, located in the Donetsk People’s Republic. I am preparing a detailed appeal to the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, ” says the head of the Tuva, Vladislav Khovalyga, in the telegram channel. - <...> phoned the chairman of the Government of the DPR Vitaly Hotsenko. He asked him to verify the legality of the actions of the national police mentioned in video messages. I urgently send my representatives to the Donetsk People’s Republic for direct proceedings on the spot. ”
Readers sent Taiga.info a record of the appeal of military personnel from Tuva, about which Khovalyg wrote. It is in Tuvinsky, but the video source also provided a translation of the words of the mobilized.
The military said that after the start of mobilization they were sent for three months to Novosibirsk, but they believe that they did not receive proper training. The authorities said that they would be in the “commandant’s battalion”, but at the end of December they were in Donetsk, then they were sent to the “line of contact”. Mobilized also talked about problems with military documents, because of which the wounded allegedly refused to accept in hospitals, but emphasized that "they do not refuse their own."
“On February 4, 2023, military DPR came to us. They shot at us with machine guns, forced us to push them up, told us that we would not leave here alive, said that we were treating the DPR, ”the man says on the video.
Mobilized claim that they were beaten by military police, and now they are "not considered soldiers of the Russian Federation." They turned to the head of Tuva Vladislav Khovalyg, the vice-speaker of the State Duma Sholban Kara-ool, the Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu and the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
Readers also sent Taiga.info a short video, made, probably, during the alleged beating from the “DPR police”. On it, several people with machine guns are lying on the snow of another soldier and swearing on others. In addition, the source provided an audio recording, which, according to, says, says a person from the “People’s Police” nicknamed Dad. The Russian Newspaper called a man with such a call sign "Lieutenant Colonel Vyacheslav Buby."
On the record, a person called “Batea” tells how “dill <...> they threw it into the quarry in 2014-2015, and then they set about their own” - those who did not obey the officers. ” “Comrade General asked me very tearfully, knowing my character when I went here to you:“ Please do not kill them. They are all relatives of Shoigu. Now you will soak them, and mothers and dads will begin to play Uncle Shoigu. ” The record breaks on this.
The voice on the Tiga.info recorded is very similar to the Voice of the Bati from the plot of the Rossiy newspaper.
“From all over the country, within the framework of partial mobilization, fathers, husbands, sons went to defend the Fatherland, carry out the tasks of a special military operation,” the statement of Vladislav Khovalyga said. “This is a egregious case discrediting the position of the mobilized.”
The ex-head of Tuva, the vice speaker of the State Duma, Sholban Kara-ool also responded to the appeal. He stated that he was interrupting a business trip to Siberia and flying to the place to clarify the circumstances.