The number of conscripts missing near Kursk has been revealed

During the fighting in the Kursk region, at least 129 Russian conscripts went missing or ended up in Ukrainian captivity, Important Stories found out . 84 people from the list compiled by the publication's journalists are listed as missing, 45 were captured.

Most of the missing and captured are 20 years old - there are 45 of them on the list, the journalists said. Another 29 soldiers are 21 years old, and nine are only 18. The oldest of the missing, according to the publication, is 24 years old. Most of the missing, 19, were drafted into the army from the Komi Republic, another 11 from Bashkortostan, nine from the Tyumen Region, eight each from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Kabardino-Balkaria, seven people from Dagestan, six from Moscow, two from St. Petersburg, the authors of the publication listed.

Important Stories explained that they could not publish a list of names "due to concerns that relatives have." Relatives of conscripts told the publication how some "assistants" contacted them, urging them not to speak publicly about the soldiers' capture, disappearance, and death, "so as not to play along with the Ukrainians and not to confront the authorities." The administrator of a chat room at one of the military units, volunteer Svetlana Zarutskaya, advised "not to talk to the hohols" and to contact FSB officers as soon as someone tried to help relatives find their sons, the journalists said.

Marina, a 44-year-old mother of a conscript from Komi, told Important Stories that she learned of her son's capture thanks to a request through the bot of the Ukrainian project "I Want to Find". "I don't care about the FSB - I need to find my child and bring him home," the woman explained. According to her, her son "was given the status of 'missing in action' so that they wouldn't look for him."

According to the publication, several conscripts have been reliably reported dead in the Kursk region. On August 14, an obituary was published in honor of 22-year-old Artem Dobrodumsky from the Rostov region. On the same days, 18-year-old Daniil Rubtsov from Vologda was killed . A week before his twentieth birthday, on August 9, Stanislav Matveyev from Staraya Russa, who had gone to serve by conscription, died . Perhaps he had managed to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense, journalists from Important Stories suggested. Another conscript, 22-year-old Nikita Dobrynin from Komi, signed a contract for two years and died on August 7.

The first captured conscripts became known on the first day of military operations in the Kursk region. The Ministry of Defense continues to massively use young people who have been drafted into the army in combat operations, the project "Go to the forest" reported , citing relatives and the conscripts themselves.

Deputy head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Apti Alaudinov recentlycriticized parents who are unhappy with the sending of their conscript children to the front. Alaudinov said that conscripts fighting in the Kursk region will definitely go to heaven after their death.

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