Dead in less than two weeks: conscript from Buryatia is killed in Ukraine
STANISLAV POHORILOV – THURSDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2022, 10:53
23-year-old Dmitry Sidorov, a Russian soldier from Ilka in the Republic of Buryatia (Russian Federation), has been killed in the war in Ukraine less than two weeks after being called up in the partial mobilisation.
Source: Latvia-based Russian media outlet Meduza, quoting a local Russian news agency
Quote: "23-year-old Dmitry Sidorov from the village of Ilka was drafted on 22 September and died on 4 October."
Details: The news agency reported that Sidorov was serving in Ukraine as a driver for the 36th Separate Red Banner Motor Rifle Brigade. The circumstances of his death have not been disclosed.
Background:
- In September, Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that 300,000 reservists would be mobilised.
- On 18 October, Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov announced that the number of 300,000 mobilised will not be exceeded.
- Russian journalists have discovered that mobilisation in the Russian Federation will involve 1.2 million people being drafted into the army, not 300,000.
- On 14 October, Vladimir Putin announced that partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation would be completed by the end of October, and that as of 21 September, 222,000 Russians had been enlisted.
- Analysts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have found that Vladimir Putin's partial mobilisation is causing social fractures.
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