Russia has admitted sending conscripts to war with Ukraine

Iryna Balachuk — Tuesday, 7 JUNE 2022, 12:54

The military prosecutor of the Western District of Russia Artur Yegiyev has said that about 600 conscripts were involved in the war in Ukraine, as a result of which "about 12 officers" were punished.

Source: Russian Interfax with reference to Yegiyev's speech in the Federation Council

Egiev's quote: "According to the Western Military District, about 600 conscripts were involved in the special military operation, all of whom were returned as soon as possible."

Details: The prosecutor's office added that disciplinary measures were taken for all the violations, and a decision was made to fire ‘officials who had committed these violations’.

Background:

• In March, a member of the Russian Federation Council said that Russia was sending conscripts to fight in Ukraine, and that only four members of a 100-unit company survived.
• On 7 March, the president of the aggressor country, Vladimir Putin, addressed Russian women and promised them that he would not involve Russian conscripts and reservists in hostilities in Ukraine.
• But on 9 March, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation admitted that conscripts were fighting on the territory of Ukraine.

• Mothers of Russian conscripts said they did not know where their sons were when they were sent to war in Ukraine.
• On 6 May, the father of Russian conscript Yegor Shkrebets, who served on the Moskva cruiser and was declared missing, published a response from the Russian Prosecutor's Office stating that the ship had not taken part in the war against Ukraine, and his son’s whereabouts were not known.