Black Book of Russian Military Units: Commanders, Extortion, Torture Pits & Casualties by FPN (v/ch)

500,000 RUB cash extortion fee to avoid assault waves; confiscation of bank cards and IDs prior to combat missions (FPN 25573); throwing a wounded soldier with severed fingers into an open pit without medical aid under threat of summary execution (FPN 82588); deploying soldiers on crutches and with Stage IV liver cirrhosis; 79 casualties in 1st Battalion within 18 days (31 KIA, 24 MIA, 24 WIA); multiple full personnel wipeouts in the 127th MRR near Volokhivka, sending cooks and drivers into assaults without cover, and operating personal belongings warehouses nicknamed the 'belongings morgue' due to continuous KIA arrivals.

Extrajudicial killings ('zeroing out') of two soldiers (one beaten to death with sticks and body destroyed, another killed after return from military police) by officers Cherkes, Soverin, and Khami (FPN 72162); marching 50-100 troops into open fields without water; locking wounded soldiers inside Luga barracks with confiscated IDs; over 30 criminal cases opened in the unit.

600,000 RUB extortion by Brigade Commander Col. V. V. Nikiforov from Sr. Lt. V. G. Zakharov (callsign Pedagog) for unit transfer (after paying 400,000 RUB cash, the commander went on leave and sent Zakharov into an assault where he went MIA); 300,000 RUB price tag for evacuating a wounded soldier in 8th Company, 3rd Battalion; sending 5 unarmed Category V disabled soldiers (missing fingers, missing an eye, shrapnel near cerebellum) to build a frontline road without cover; reprisals and execution threats against officer D. Chichvarin (callsign Veter) amid soldier complaints against commander Sochi.

Phone confiscation and severe beating of 3rd Company, 1st Battalion soldier E. M. Galimyanov (callsign Mars) by Chief of Staff E. Yu. Saenko (Tayson) for changing his mobile banking password to block commanders from stealing a >1,000,000 RUB payout received on May 27, followed by the soldier's disappearance; 3-5 million RUB extortion by the brigade commander via Moscow lawyer Sasha Alekseevich Latynin (with a 27th Brigade medic stationed in his office and a 350,000 RUB retainer) for medical discharge of a soldier after 13 surgeries, sending him back to the front upon refusal to pay; payout fraud (700k RUB paid instead of 4M RUB for wounds); retroactively registering MIA soldiers near Kupiansk/Svatove as AWOL (SOCh).

Extortion of 50% of wound insurance payouts by Company Commander D. S. Kemerov (Kemer) and Deputy Commander M. P. Dudukov (Dudka); baseball bat beatings; summary execution ('zeroing out') on 08.05.2025 of 90th Battalion soldier Andrey Andreevich Bykov after he refused to pay; disappearance of Maksim Andreevich Yakovlev (Ivan) immediately after wiring money to Kemerov; abduction of Evgeny Rusakov from a training ground to Kemerov.

Fictitious combat registration of 7th Separate MRR commandant D. B. Vasilyev (callsign Tungus) in Belovodsk as an assault rifleman in the 79th MRR under the protection of district HQ officer Shmel, holding soldiers in slave labor on construction projects and forcing them to buy building materials with their own money; starvation deaths of two soldiers of the 1st VKS MRR and severe hunger in the 1431st MRR near Tetkino and Ryzhevsky Forest (positions strewn with unrecovered bodies since Spring 2025); cutting off food and water as punishment in the 186th Regiment (Maj. Rychkov); deploying a stroke survivor with a paralyzed leg into combat in the 506th Regiment.