Conscript died from bullet after refusing to sign a contract
Maxim Mironov, a 20-year-old conscript who died in the Kursk region, was buried in a hospital in the Sverdlovsk region. A report from his funeral was published by the European-Asian News agency, which is censored by the authorities. Mironov was conscripted on October 22, 2025 and sent to serve in Naro-Fominsk near Moscow. During the service, in a conversation with his mother on April 25, 2026, he said that he was being forced to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense.