Maxim Noskov, a 20-year-old native of the Perm Region, was conscripted in June 2026 and ended up in military unit 69647 in the city of Kyakhta (Buryatia), where he was threatened to sign a contract on August 15. His mother told ASTRA about it.
“They found a phone at his checkpoint. He allegedly filmed something in the unit. And State Secrets protection service came. Three big men. They searched everything. They started threatening, “We’re going to put you in jail now or sign a contract.” I don’t think they beat him. The son was scared, and that night he wrote a report dictated by Ensign Roman Petrov. The day before, he found out that his grandmother had died. He was in a depressed state. When I told him about grandmother, he cried… They took advantage of it. They just ticked him, and that’s it…”
The mother claims that on August 17, her son wrote a report on termination of the contract, went to the headquarters, where Deputy Political Officer Erdni Davydov gave him an incoming number and signed the document, but no one else saw this report. After that, the mother flew in by plane, because it takes three days to travel by train.
“They wouldn’t let me go beyond the checkpoint. I asked to see the commander of the military unit, but they wouldn’t let me in. That deputy political officer came out to me and said that there was already an order and nothing could be done. I asked what the order was, if it all happened over the weekend. Now I understand that he deceived me. He told me that he had discussed everything with Maxim, they even drank tea and the son allegedly signed the contract voluntarily,” the mother recalls.
The son managed to file a second report, and the mother appealed to the Kyakhta military prosecutor’s office.
“They said they would look into it. Then I called the prosecutor. “Well, what do you want, it’s an army. No one beat him,” he replied to me. In the end, they didn’t do anything.”
The mother again tried to communicate with the management of the military unit. After a day of waiting at the checkpoint, Battalion commander Ilya Galkin came out to her.
“It’s okay. My son will serve in the medical department for the time being. Then they will send him to his home, and then they will take him back to the unit,” the mother conveyed the words of the military man, which she does not believe.
On August 25, the mother received a notification from the prosecutor’s office that the documents had been sent to the UK:
“It turned out that my son was called to the Investigative Committee, but they didn’t tell him about it in the unit. His pass was taken away from him, he could not go out. It was only when I started calling that I found out that they had called him. After my intervention on September 8, he was nevertheless taken to the investigator. After that, the son was depressed, because both the deputy political officer and the ensign questioned him. All of them stated that there was no pressure. They won’t incriminate themselves…”
The mother clarified that after a visit to the Investigative Committee, an ensign came to his son in the unit and began to persuade him: “Sign an agreement that you will be put on the lip, and retroactively sign the withdrawal of the phone.” The mother thinks it’s a ruse to send her to her own place.
“The ensign also tried to persuade me to persuade my son to do so. I didn’t. I just want him to serve and come back. I’m afraid he’ll be sent to war. With his eyesight, and he sees very poorly, he will simply die at the front. He’s very vulnerable. When I talked to a woman from the Investigative Committee yesterday, she told me, her son was crying all the time… “How did you send him to the army like that?” she asks. I replied that he had cataracts in general and his father was a group I bedridden invalid. My son was assigned category B-3 at the military enlistment office. And later it turned out that he had a B-4.”
Noskov received a salary of 500,000 rubles, but he knows that “this money should not be touched,” says the mother.
