59‑year‑old resident of the Krasnodar Region, Valery Marzen, ended up at the front in Ukraine a few days after he went to look for work advertised as a civilian job. A relative of the man told ASTRA about this.
“He was looking for work. In late August, he came across an advertisement for a rotational job in Kerch, restoring a factory.” “Kamyshburunstroy” or something like that. Called. They asked him to send a photo of his passport and SNILS. They said the security service would check it. They called back, said it was a good fit, and asked when he was ready to come. He needed two days to get ready. They immediately sent a ticket. But not to Kerch, but to Samara. They said the head office was there. I had my doubts about why Samara… But my husband had worked in the north, and in the traffic police, so he went, — the interviewee explains to ASTRA. — He lived in some house on the banks of the Volga. He went somewhere for a medical examination. He was removed from military registration in the Krasnodar Region. They had recently moved from the north. Then they took him to the military enlistment office, saying that he needed to register an employment contract there, because he would have to work in the occupied territories. They gave him several papers to sign. A work contract. And among the papers, as it later turned out, was a contract for military service. He read only the first page, and then signed everything. The date on it was September 6. He had been deceived. He didn’t notice that he had signed the contract.”
The personal data in the contract was not entered by Marzen; after signing, he lost contact and it was found when he was already in Ukraine, a relative said:“A few days later, he was able to report that all his belongings had been confiscated and he was in military unit 41885, where he was told they would take him to Rostov. But they were immediately taken either to the Luhansk or the Donetsk region. Straight to the training ground.
”Right now, he’s somewhere near Pokrovsk, as he said, in the “yellow zone.” Today, they were supposed to show him the maps so that he could then be redeployed to the “red zone” further on. He repeatedly tried to submit a report to terminate the contract when he found himself in the front zone, but he wasn’t allowed to do so.”
According to the ASTRA interlocutor, the man managed to inform his family that he had already been wounded, but he is being prepared for deployment to the front line:
“I’m afraid he won’t come back… They sent him there with a fever. He’s coughing. He’s worried that the cough might give him away… They were sent there without warm clothes, without bags, and they’re sleeping on a concrete floor.” The 439th Assault Regiment, 1st Battalion, 3rd Company. But his military ID lists him as category “A.” He’s already been wounded. They were moving around somewhere. And there’s bombing going on. He has one finger broken, and two others are torn. “I don’t understand how he’ll use a weapon if he has to…”
The relatives contacted the law enforcement agencies several weeks ago, but so far they haven’t received any answers, apart from the fact that their inquiries have been received.
