Lyudi Baikala: In Irkutsk Oblast, a Wife Took Her Husband Out of a Military Enlistment Office. The Family Says the Man Was Given Vodka and Forced to Sign Papers to Be Sent to War

Lyudi Baikala: in Irkutsk Oblast, a wife took her husband out of a military enlistment office. The family said the man was given vodka and forced to sign papers to be sent to war

The wife and daughter of a 54-year-old entrepreneur from Ust-Kut in Irkutsk Oblast complained to prosecutors that police officers had tried to forcibly send him to war, writes Lyudi Baikala. According to his relatives, Vladimir Shch. was not allowed to leave the police station and military enlistment office for almost 24 hours, his phone and documents were taken away, and he was forced to sign a statement saying that he wanted to go to war.

On the evening of September 20, a district police officer came in response to neighbors’ complaint to an apartment where Vladimir was visiting, and photographed him asleep on a sofa. Then the officer brought the intoxicated man home to get his passport and told his wife that he had been detained, but did not explain why. Vladimir spent the night at the police station. According to him, the police fed the detainees and bought them vodka.

In the morning, Vladimir was taken to the military enlistment office, where for about two hours he signed “some papers” — what exactly they were, he was never able to explain to his relatives. His wife says that on the way, the district officer bought them alcohol, and the family believes the man was being given drinks so that he would not refuse anything. After the military enlistment office, Vladimir was taken for a medical examination, and according to relatives, he was escorted to the toilet under guard.

When his wife came to pick up her husband, the district officer refused to let him go and accused her of interfering with the signing of a contract. She managed to take Vladimir away by chance — he asked permission to go out for a smoke, and his wife, seizing the moment, drove him home.

After that, according to the family, the district officer several times waited for Vladimir near his home and told his relatives that he was now “on the hook”: “God forbid we see him on the street or anywhere else — he’ll go to the SVO anyway.”

🔵In her appeal to prosecutors, Vladimir’s daughter writes that over the past two weeks at least 17 men from Ust-Kut may have been taken to the military enlistment office in the same way. Vladimir’s documents were later returned, but the family is still afraid for him, the outlet writes.

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