Three conscripts from Omsk, serving in military unit No. 69647 in the city of Kyakhta in the Republic of Buryatia, said they were tricked into signing contracts. Relatives of servicemen Yuri Vitsinets, Daniyar Kereibaev and Denis Mozhaitsev appealed to the military prosecutor’s office, saying that the unit’s command had misinformed the young people and was now preventing the termination of contracts, but they received no response, relatives of the soldiers told ASTRA. At the same time, they claim that Vintsinets, Kereibayev and Mozhaitsev are not the only ones who were forced to sign contracts, they know about at least two more conscripts, but they have no relatives who could stand up for them.
Yuri Vitsinets graduated from the ninth grade of school and went to work to wait until he came of age and joined the army. When he turned 18, he was drafted.
“He never had any “military” tendencies, he was always far from it, he is very kind, cheerful, he has a lot of friends,” Yuri’s sister Natalia told ASTRA.
Her brother and other conscripts from Omsk left for the unit on July 1, 2025, and on July 5 they were forced to sign contracts under pressure from the command.
“We signed contracts under his psychological pressure, he intimidated us, said that if we stayed on urgent duty, we would be sent to Kursk, and out of a hundred percent of conscripts, only 70 return from there. He also told us a story that three KAMAZ trucks with conscripts were driving, and one of the three cars was blown up and that’s it, the boys didn’t come back. And if we sign contracts, we will serve in the unit and will be able to leave in a year,” the guys said in their video message.
“The guys signed the contracts with full confidence that they were safe, that no one would send them anywhere,” Natalia told ASTRA. — At the same time, no one even told them that contracts are automatically renewed until the end of mobilization, and they can be sent to study within a few weeks after being sworn in. They even said exactly where — 60 km away from the fighting.”
After the conscripts realized that they had been deceived, they wrote reports asking them to cancel their contracts, however, as Natalia says, perhaps “they are still lying on the desk of some officer and that’s it.”
“The officer forces them to write explanatory notes about the publicity of the situation at his dictation, and when the guys resist, he forces them to tear up what he wrote and re-write what he says. In addition, they are not informed of the report numbers to find out about their fate,” says Natalia.
Later, the military prosecutor’s office arrived on the territory of the unit, but despite the check, the pressure on the soldiers only increased: their phones were taken away, and now they contact their relatives irregularly.
“They started threatening them with imprisonment, they said they would do anything but let them terminate these contracts,” the woman explains. — They couldn’t be attracted by money: none of the guys are poor, they couldn’t go for money. They were just going to serve a year and come back. And now, immediately after taking the oath, they will be sent to a war zone.”
Now the families of the injured conscripts are trying to draw attention to the problem and get an answer from the military prosecutor’s office. At the same time, as Natalia says, “it seems that the prosecutor’s office is just dragging its feet.”
