Hell for the mobilized outside Svatove: Stories of those missing in action and survivors’ accounts

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Vladimir Putin threw thousands of mobilized men to outside Svatove to stop the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in fall 2022. Commanders were sending Russians to the frontline without outfits, training, or cover. Newly fledged soldiers immediately got under fire from the Ukrainian side and then from their own forces as well. These all resulted into catastrophic losses for the Russian army. The authorities are trying to conceal the details of this tragedy by all means.
Important Stories, however, got hold of unique documents-hundreds of complaints to Putin from families of the mobilized thrown for slaughter in the Luhansk region. We verified the data from those addresses, talked to their authors, and reconstructed the full picture of the Svatove slaughter.
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🔵 Time codes
00:00 How the Svatove slaughter began
02:38 “They twisted the child’s arms and dragged him to this hell!”
04:43 “The guys came under fire from Ukrainians and then from ours”
07:56 How mobilized survivors were treated
10:16 “It seemed it wasn’t about us”
12:15 “God willing, there won’t be the second phase of mobilization”
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