“Alexei Martynov, a 28-year-old employee of the Moscow government, was mobilised on 23 September, his father said. His death was confirmed on 10 October. “My son has died, what am I for?” he wrote in a post on 13 October. “We don’t know anything more than what was put on the internet,” he told the Observer.
Old photographs from Victory Day in 2016 showed Martynov in army uniform, two months after completing his mandatory service. According to Natalya Loseva, the deputy editorial director of the RT television channel, he had served in the Semyonovsky regiment, whose main activities are ceremonial.
“He had no combat experience,” Loseva wrote in an angry post last week that made Martynov the highest-profile death yet from the wave of mobilisation. “He was sent to the front within just a few days. He died heroically on 10 October.””
Putin is destroying Russia
Don’t gloat. This kind of thing happened at Fort Hood
How many U.S draftees copped a bullet after a few weeks in Vietnam. Got any stats?
really sad
Russia already has more land than any other country on Earth, but for some reason, insists on stealing this extra 0.01% from another country
we notice Putin and his crony buddies aren’t doing any fighting or suffering, they’re still living it up
What is this story supposed to prove?
“Putin is destroying Russia”
Glad you’re so concerned about Russia, but without a link I could write fiction about Ukrainian atrocities just as easily as you can do it.