A resident of Omsk was detained under the pretext of not paying alimony, beaten at a recruitment center for the war, and after being sent to the front, he is listed as missing. A 42‑year‑old resident of Omsk, Ivan Isaikhin, went missing at the front after being beaten at the Sirius‑55 contract service recruitment center, where he signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense on July 10, 2026. Isaikhin was assigned to military unit 78568. ASTRA was told about this by the man’s mother:
“He went out that morning to get some cigarettes. I told him many times: ‘Ivan, when you go anywhere, take your phone with you.’ My sister lives nearby. If I had warned him, he would have gone to her to get away from them… They came for him while he was away. They knocked on the gate for a long time. He came back, and they took him away. He had arrears on child support payments.” They said they would take him to Yaltinskaya Street (where the Department of Bailiffs for the Kirovsky Administrative District of Omsk is located — editor’s note). But it turned out that they took him to this “Sirius‑55,” where they beat him badly. Until he lost consciousness. Bloodied and stripped, he was taken to the army along with the others.
After being beaten in Omsk, Isaikhin spent a month and a half continuously in hospitals in Bryansk, Tula, and Moscow with a traumatic brain injury, brain contusion, cerebral hemorrhage, hematomas, and rib fractures, as documented.
In August, he was placed at the disposal of the operational group of military unit 78568 in Yekaterinburg, from where he was assigned to Millerovo, Rostov Region. There, he was officially granted a 45-day medical leave from September 13, but instead of rehabilitation, he was immediately sent to a war zone.
The last time his mother spoke to him was on October 3, when he was already in the Donetsk region at military unit 91706 (5th Assault Group, 102nd Motorized Rifle Regiment).
“He said that they took him to the bank so that he would withdraw 450 thousand in order not to storm. But as early as October 6, he was sent on a mission. They simply understood that he was already on the lists of stormtroopers, and they simply conned him out of money. It’s practically impossible to prove this now, but there’s simply no sense of proportion there— it’s a real bloody business. The military is already paid well, but they still want more. In the end, they took the money and sent their son to be slaughtered. I don’t feel like he’s dead yet… In Omsk, there are no more homeless people, no more drunkards…,” the mother said.
The mother contacted the military enlistment office, where, according to her, she was told that she now had to “be kind” to her son’s ex‑wife. Relatives of the ex‑wife, who has two children with Isaikhin, declined to comment on the situation.
After contacting the military enlistment office, the family received a notification stating that Isaikhin went missing on October 18 in the Sofiivka area in the Donetsk region. The document from the military prosecutor’s office states that he left for a combat mission back in September. The mother said that she had contacted representatives of the military unit several times privately, and each time she received a different response. First, they claimed that they had allegedly found her son using a helicopter, and then they said that the search had yielded no results.
Earlier, ASTRA checked the messages posted by 2GIS users who, in the comments under the “Sirius‑55” address, reported illegal detentions of local residents with the aim of enrolling them in contract military service. One of the commentators confirmed that his father went through this checkpoint, but, according to the ASTRA interlocutor, he went there voluntarily. At the same time, the contract soldier’s son confirmed that after visiting “Sirius‑55,” the man was immediately sent to the army and didn’t have time to complete his affairs before being deployed.
ASTRA has previously written about military unit 91708 on multiple occasions. In June, we reported about a mobilized soldier who, despite the consequences of two wounds, was sent back to the front from that unit, where he “disappeared without a trace.”
We have also written about military unit 78568 on multiple occasions. The last time was in connection with the case of a citizen of Kazakhstan, who was detained in Ulyanovsk, accused of distributing drugs, forced to sign a contract, and sent to the Rostov region. After the publication by ASTRA, the foreigner was returned to Ulyanovsk.
