“The officers were rolling on the floor laughing when they saw my toothless jaw.” The story of a Russian who went to the front, lived in the trenches for three months, couldn’t stand it and went home on his own. “We spent about 50 thousand rubles to get ready for war,” Elena (name changed) said in one of the materials of “Vestka” in November.

After the announcement of “partial” mobilization, there were many debtor fathers at the front. Some, as Vorstka found out, went there to escape their obligations - otherwise they would face criminal punishment for non-payment of alimony. This situation suddenly helped some of the mothers - for the first time in years they received alimony thanks to front-line payments from their ex-husbands. Others, on the contrary, stopped receiving money due to bureaucratic delays.