ASTRA has confirmed their identities.
Relatives of Russian conscripts continue to search for their close ones who disappeared after the penetration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the Kursk region. There are multiple publications on social networks, thematic chats and channels. ASTRA has studied more than 60 such messages and confirmed the identities of 42 conscripts, whose fate has been unknown since the breakthrough of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the Kursk region. All 42 servicemen served in the 488th regiment of military unit 12721, stationed in Klintsy, Bryansk region. Among the missing conscripts, whose identities were confirmed by ASTRA, there are residents of Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk region, Komi Republic, Abakan, Lipetsk region, Buryatia and other regions of the Russian Federation.
As relatives of some of the missing conscripts told ASTRA, there is no information about their whereabouts in the military unit, the Ministry of Defense, hospitals or morgues.
Earlier, ASTRA reported that conscripts who survived breaking through the border are forced to sign contracts in order to be sent back to the front line in the Kursk region. Earlier, the parents of soldiers of the 80th Motorized Rifle Division, military unit 34667, said that “Kursk battalions” are formed of the conscripts who had just joined the service. Also mothers of conscripts of the draft 2023-2024 in the petition asked Putin to remove their sons from the Kursk border.
