Tortured pits for recruits: As in the Russian Federation punishable violators of military discipline - the media

They beat, hold in shackles and throw in pits without food and water. This was described by the journalists disciplinary measures in the educational units of the Russian army former servicemen. Pits in the Volgograd region and Totsky in the Orenburg region found are found at the landfills of the Volgograd region and "Totsky" in the Orenburg region, which are used to punish dissatisfied recruited recruits and violators of military discipline.

Investigative journalists received information about it from two anonymous sources that served at these landfills. Comparing the information of the sources and satellite images of landfills taken in early August this year, journalists of Conflict Intelligence Team and the edition of "Important Stories" came to the conclusion that the pits at the landfill "Prudboy" are very likely to be used as torture , keep without food, water and medical care.

In the earlier satellite images of the landfill, made in April 2023, these pits are not. According to the source CIT, which arrived at the Prudboy landfill in June 2023 as a volunteer, recruited recruits were initially beaten by military police. Then they were thrown into the pit for a period of several days to a week. Most often, the cause of such punishment was the drunkenness of the newcomers, most of which were recruited in Russian colonies and prisons.

According to unconfirmed information, in the period of the source on the landfill one of his comrades died after a pit in the pit. One of the military analysts CIT claims that "it cannot be said that these pits have some economic need or is a training place. " Another source of investigators, who deserted from the army of the Russian Federation in the summer of 2023, was undergoing training at the Totsky landfill in the Orenburg region.

According to him, violators of the charter at the landfill were beaten by a "group of approximate" commander of the unit and the aircraft with stripes "Akhmat". After beating the penalties, they were kept in handcuffs around the clock or also thrown into the pits. Satellite images confirmed the presence of two pits in Totsky near the field camp, but the images did not make a clear conclusion for what purpose these pits could be used.

Journalists also found out that on "Prudboy" similar "guardhakhts" existed in the late 1990s, when there was killed punishment for a dirty subcarriage soldier. Recall, according to American analysts, conflicts on ethnic soil can jeopardize the integrity of Russian defense during Ukrainian counter -offensive. November from Ossetia complained that military police beat him and two more soldiers. Earlier, Focus wrote about a firefight between the "Cadyrivs" and the Dagestans.