Military Contract Experience and Challenges

132nd Motor Rifle Brigade. The battalion commander

didn’t assign companies by rank, either first

or

second. But we had B’s, we just called them V’s.

No, I came from prison, I have no leg, I have a prosthesis.

I signed a contract from prison. They originally locked me up

in Astrakhan. Long story short, I hit a dealer,

smacked this fucker on the earlobe.

Well, I only cut him a little. Then,

after they locked me up, they started,

fuck, building a 210 case against me.

There,

so many fucking charges piled up.

When the prosecutor asked for 20 years,

I

signed a contract and got the fuck out. I was there for a year.

And toward the end, it was like my 17th combat mission.

I was rolling up, then bam, this thing hit me.

It was meant to hit me in the back, but it hit in front of me.

I had a closed fracture, and that was it.

Then I spent a week pulling back,

gangrene set in, and they amputated my leg.

I made it back from the front line alone,

who's gonna pick me up, who the fuck needs me?

When I told them over the radio three times:

"I'm about to fucking die, I fucking have

thirst,

fuck, I just can't move anymore, I can't even crawl anymore."

They told me, "We can't pick you up.

To send, say, four people or two people for you right now,

they would also

die there." They don't spare ordinary guys either.

We had contract soldiers there, fuck, it's the same, they just get

treated a little better.

Fuck, when they get there,

training usually lasts a month.

They trained us for two weeks.

This is where Mariupol is,

there's a training ground near Mariupol.

They trained us there for two weeks.

For those two weeks, I fucking walked around,

trained, basically, while those morons looked for

alcohol, fuck, and water to get drunk, basically.

Forty-year-old men are signing contracts.

And later, when they gathered us all, two groups, one guy said, "I'm not

going." Well, they didn't zero him out, they just fucking tied him up,

and he burned there.

You know how they zeroed people out?

They didn't shoot them like that.

They'd send him fucking out there, to some godforsaken place, into a pit.

Well, they didn't lock me up, they locked

people up at the training ground.

At the training ground, I know why they locked people up.

If you act like an idiot, if you're getting drunk,

if you're doing some bullshit,

if you're trying to score something, whether it's a smoke or not,

drugs or not.

Anyway, I was on a combat mission, it was my first one, and my mom,

fuck, anyway, someone wrote to her, like, if you send a hundred grand, this

younger son of yours will be taken off the mission,

he'll be okay there, so on and so forth.

move. And my mom sent one hundred grand,

then they fucked over that battalion commander.

Thirteen, yeah, thirteen people filed a complaint

against him.

The FSB guys came there and

fucked him right up, fuck.

I haven't received my salary at all,

fuck, and it looks like I won't.

I didn't get it for a whole year. I asked around there,

some get it, some don't,

fuck. We performed in Vugansk, over there at the club.

They stole Peru from a guy,

fuck, going from club to club.