Sergei Gridin was found hanged earlier this month in his base outside Moscow by fellow service members—who managed to snap a photo of the suicide note he left before commanders arrived and swept the whole incident under the rug, according to reports.
“I don’t want to submit to people who inspire nothing but fear and disgust. You didn’t manage to break me and you already never will. That’s why I decided to die here on native land without others’ blood on my hands,” Gridin wrote in the letter.
Gridin said he’d made clear to commanders he wouldn’t join the war in Ukraine but they reacted by tormenting him. Gridin’s commanders reportedly confiscated the note at the scene and tried to keep its contents under wraps, as there was also no mention of it in official documents about the investigation into the young conscript’s death.
The Kremlin repeatedly promised at the start of the war that it would not send conscripts to Ukraine, but the defense ministry was then forced to admit to the practice a short time later, leaving Vladimir Putin humiliated andNumerous reports have emerged in independent media about young conscripts, many of whom are students, being tricked into going to the front line under false pretenses.
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