Sister pulled one of them out of the car, and the other was sent to war.
On May 23, in Primorsky region, two men, Alexei Borisov and his friend Sergei Vesyagin, were lured under the pretext of working in a military unit and forced to sign a contract under threats and physical violence. Boris’s sister Elena managed to physically pull him out of the car. Vesyagin was later sent to Ukraine. Elena Borisova told about this in public video messages, and she shared the details with ASTRA.
Alexey Borisov is a handyman who was hired based on requests from social networks. According to his sister, he is a mentally retarded man who studied in a correctional program.
According to Elena, on May 20, a serviceman drove Vesyagin from the village of Pokrovka to Ussuriysk and offered him a part-time job “repairing fences, plastering, mowing grass” for 5,000 rubles a day. Vyagin initially refused, but left a phone number. The military kept calling. On the morning of May 24, with a hangover, he agreed.
After that, two men in civilian clothes came for Borisov and Vyagin in the afternoon, but they did not introduce themselves. On the way to Sergeyevka, the men stopped in Ussuriysk, bought alcohol, and then fed it in a cafe. Later, at the location of the 394th Motorized Rifle Regiment, Alexey and Sergey had their phones and documents taken away. They were taken by car directly to the territory and locked indoors: three rooms without doors, each with people in the same position. A few hours later, two soldiers came to them demanding to sign a contract. At first, they tried to persuade him verbally, with threats and manipulations: they promised that they would not be sent to the front, they would work with the unit. Both refused. The military left and returned — “not only verbal threats, but also physical violence began,” says Elena. Fearing for their lives, both signed. “They signed on three pieces of paper — they just signed it,” Elena said. They were not told what exactly they were signing.
As they were being escorted through the checkpoint, one of the soldiers said, “Step left, step right, I’ll shoot you.” Borisov and Vesyagin were put in a car and taken to make bank cards in order to charge 200 thousand rubles each “for signing a contract.” At that moment, Elena managed to get her brother out of the car, while Vesyagin was taken away.
According to Elena, she happened to be at the checkpoint because she was going to complain to the military prosecutor’s office located at the same address. At the checkpoint, she was told that “if they took her to the 394th, then it’s bad, there’s game going on there.”
After Elena posted a video with her brother’s story on Instagram, Sergey Vesyagin’s sister contacted her. According to his sister, Vyagin said that he was being hidden elsewhere and was being prepared to be sent to the front. He could not be contacted, and his relatives filed a complaint with the military prosecutor’s office and the investigative committee.
The military also offered Vyagin to bring more people — they promised a thousand rubles for each new recruit: “We need five or six people.” Vyagin refused.
Elena suggests that the military units of Ussuriysk are specifically looking for “single men without relatives” who could be forced to sign a contract.
