Berlin About three weeks after Dmitry Voldnev was drafted, his superior put a gun to his head. The superior, Alexander Lapin, is an experienced military general at this point, and Voldnev is a sound engineer from Moscow. He was sent to the Donbass front on September 23, a few days after the partial mobilization was announced.
The “neighboring” company, 1st Company, 1st Battalion, is serving at this time Nikita Pavlov, 23, from Moscow. He too found himself in the course of partial mobilization at the front and soon in Dmitri Voldnev’s unit. He observed how Lapin is said to have threatened Voldnev.
The Russian-language online magazine Mediazona has researched how the three men found themselves in this situation. The story coincides with the experiences of recruits in other parts of the Donbass, which The Guardian is now reporting.
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