Russia Used Beatings and Tricks to Forcibly Send Rookie Troops to Ukraine, Rights Group Says [View all]

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Mothers of soldiers all across the country say their sons were battered and duped into the war, a human rights organization has claimed.

Russian soldiers from all across the country were deceived into heading to the Ukrainian border, and some were beaten if they resisted, according to the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers, a Russian non-governmental organization that works to expose human rights violations within the military.

The group is reportedly preparing a complaint for the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office alleging that their sons only recently joined the military as conscripts and were told they were going to the border with Ukraine for drills. But their statuses were then abruptly changed to contract soldiers— a role for those with more combat and training experience—and they were suddenly thrust into war.

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