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You know you're losing the attention of your audience when they start doing this in front of you

That was maybe true three years ago but certainly isn't the case now.

He flew from Moscow to Magadan, just for their local/regional enlistment bonus.

Magadan is Yakutsia, where the government just recently ran out of money.
Just because of these bonuses.

Sources:
🔹 www.svoboda.org/a/prikazal-o...
🔹 t.me/bratyapooruz...

30/ "We're taking risks here, fighting. And up there... Well, you understand everything yourself. People like that don't get punished, they get stars. And everyone knows about it. That's just how it works." /end

29/ "Well, it's just... You understand that the higher-ups knew everything too, right? The case is open, the man is a suspect, there is information. And on top of all this – a promotion. Well, it's not like they didn't know or weren't aware. They knew everything.

28/ "The investigation led nowhere, and a year later, by order of the Ministry of Defence, he was appointed commander of the 87th. That is, he was promoted, yes.

27/ …an AK-12 assault rifle at the latter, which caused Novikov to fall to the ground."

This was no secret, you understand? It was discussed among our people, written about in the channels. The information was circulating. Everyone knew who and what.

26/ "From the case materials it follows that on 27 April 2023, no earlier than 10:00 a.m., I.V. Puzik, being near the village of Krutaya Balka in the Yasinovataya district of the Donetsk People's Republic, having a personal grudge against A.B. Novikov, fired at least one shot from…

25/ "The report on the facts of violations of Federal Law by officials of military units of the 51st Army describes how Puzik shot his own man, Novikov, in April 2023. Three shots. The guy died on the spot. The Investigative Committee, the 105th, opened a case.

24/ The 'Brothers in Arms' Telegram channel quotes from a criminal complaint that was submitted against Puzik, but later dropped, before he was promoted to command the 87th Motorised Rifle Regiment. As the channel writes:

23/ This is apparent from a recently disclosed criminal complaint against one of the most notorious commanders in the Russian army, Colonel Igor Puzik (callsign 'Evil'). He became infamous for sending two drone operators to die after they exposed him for dealing drugs.

22/ She is now taking legal action to seek compensation for her husband's death and has petitioned the Investigative Committee – roughly Russia's equivalent of the FBI. However, it is unlikely that those responsible will ever be punished. They may even be rewarded.

21/ She is bitter about her husband's brief military career:

"He arrived at his unit on July 24th, contacted us on the 27th, and they beat him to death on the 29th. So much for the army."

20/ "All they care about is what they can get out of you. I'll kill you now, throw you in the woods, who will find out, and I'll have almost 3 million in my pocket."

19/ "They have a different mindset. Simply because they won't get anything for it. They are very cruel. They think that if you came and signed a contract, you are nobody and you have no name.

18/ "I think Alexey's commanders also knew that these payments would soon end, so they wanted to take the last money from people as quickly as possible. I know how people with rank and money think: they believe they can do anything, that it's normal.

17/ "I see that no one is sitting in the subway anymore, no one is recruiting for contracts, and they are no longer paying that kind of [enlistment] money.

16/ "The military, I think, believe that the era of paid contracts is coming to an end, which is why they are squeezing money out of soldiers so ruthlessly.

15/ As noted in the thread linked above, there have been numerous similar complaints about Russian commanders killing their men for profit. Irina suggests that the increasing frequency of complaints is linked to commanders seeing the war's end approaching:

14/ "The reason the body lay there for so long was probably because [the political officer] was waiting for the money to come in, although there was no point, since he didn't know the PIN."

13/ "Everyone lied—the officer in charge, the commander who notified him of his death, and his political officer, who killed Alexey at his unit for the card.

12/ "It's a system; fighting it is impossible. They're all tied together: the prosecutor's office, the Ministry of Defence, the Investigative Committee, the morgue.

11/ "They're killing their own soldiers right there in their own unit, even destroying them faster than Ukrainian drones."

She points out that every element of the system was complicit in covering up her husband's death:

10/ She says that they learned the truth through the wife of one of his comrades: "through her, we were able to find witnesses to how he was beaten for two days with sticks and a shovel, and ultimately beaten to death, over his bank card PIN code."

9/ "Then they realised: what if the military police catches and brings back those who went AWOL, and here's his body lying there—and there's a report saying he's missing in action [in a different location]. That's why they issued a death notice, which arrived on 1 August."

8/ "They beat him for two days. And when they beat him [to death] on the second day, they wanted to just dump his body in the woods. Two soldiers saw this, feared they would be next, and went AWOL. And they reported him missing in action on 29 July.

7/ According to Grigoriev's wife Irina:

"They get paid for their contract every month or so. He signed the contract on 6 July and arrived on the 27th. The political officer ordered him to hand over his Gazprombank card and demanded the PIN. Alexey wouldn't tell."

6/ Similar thefts by so-called 'black commanders' are reportedly commonplace. There have been frequent reports of commanders sending their own men to their deaths, or simply murdering them themselves, to steal from them.
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5/ However, this story was exposed as false too. Grigoriev's relatives learned from his comrades that he had been beaten to death by his regiment's political officer, who had attempted to force Grigoriev to surrender his military salary card and PIN number to steal his salary.