23‑year‑old conscript was offered cigarettes and forced to sign a contract, with promises that he would be sent to study to become a driver in Chelyabinsk, but on October 9 he was being prepared to be sent to war.
Roman Antonenkov, a native of Magnitogorsk, who was drafted for mandatory service in April and ended up in military unit 93992 in Chebarkul, was deceived into signing a contract. His wife told ASTRA about this.
“On August 11, he was taken away from the training ground where the exercises were taking place.” They brought him to Chebarkul. At first, the agitators offered him their cigarettes. He took one and smoked it. Then they started threatening him because they had found his phone: “You’ll get a criminal record, you’ll be put in prison, and everything will be really bad.” They even used physical violence. They pushed him around, shoved him. He told me that all of this went on for a long time. And at some point, he no longer understood what was happening. Later, a seemingly “kind” man promised him that he would go to study in Chelyabinsk, to the motorized troops: “Sign this, and you won’t be bothered; you’ll go to study for a C category license. While you’re studying, everything here will be forgotten. Everything will be fine.” He signed. “Congratulations, you’re a contract soldier,” they told him.
His wife clarified that after that, her husband was sent to spend the night with a stranger outside the military unit’s territory: “Roman was sent to sleep outside the unit, in some guy’s apartment.” Of course, it made him uncomfortable, but he understood that if he resisted, it would only get worse. In the morning, he woke up because he had soiled himself. This had never happened to him before. He said his consciousness was clouded.
Antonenkov doesn’t have a copy of the contract in his hands. They didn’t accept his report on termination.
“He immediately wrote a report. He wrote that he had been deceived.” The military lawyer at the unit looked at the contract, then at the report, and rejected the report: “Everything is drawn up correctly. Were they deceived? I don’t know that, I can’t verify it.”
The wife filed complaints with law enforcement agencies, but no response came within the 30‑day period allotted for a response, neither from the military prosecutor’s office nor from the Investigative Committee.
