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“We have a good state!” The mobilized were offered to donate their salaries to a kindergarten

For seven months now, two mobilized from Petrozavodsk have been living in a military unit near Pskov. They are not sent to war and are not allowed to go home, although they were about to be demobilized. The military commissar of Karelia advised them not to appear in the republic, and to give the money received from the army for six months, in case of demobilization, to give to the seaside orphans. Sever correspondent tried to figure out why young people with psychiatric diagnoses are still not allowed to go home.Realities

The story of Ivan Derevyanko, a resident of Petrozavodsk, is briefly as follows: after the announcement of mobilization, he, like thousands of Russian men, was taken away one day and taken to the unit. However, he never went to war. Almost immediately after his arrival, Ivan began to have panic attacks. It turned out that even during military service he had mental problems, and the doctors issued a conclusion that it was not recommended for him to put a weapon in his hands.

Ivan Derevianko before mobilization

After mobilization, Ivan underwent several more examinations by a psychologist, in particular, in the military unit to which he was assigned, he was in the Pskov Regional Psychiatric Hospital. In the course of new surveys, the original conclusion was confirmed. In the Pskov Regional Clinical Center for Psychology and Narcology, after examining Derevyanko, they recommended that he be sent to the VVK to resolve the issue of fitness for military service. The conclusion issued by the psychologist of the group of psychological work VCh No. 32515 Skripacheva says that Ivan Derevyanko must be sent for a medical examination by a psychiatrist and “not to be involved in the service with weapons.” Despite this, seven months later, Derevyanko is still not at home.

Ivan Derevyanko with his cousin

“It would be better if they riveted cartridges”

The father of the mobilized Ivan Derevianko Yuriy came to the village of Cherekha to help his son. And immediately went to the commander of the unit.

In the office of Alexander Gorchilin, commander of military unit No. 32515, there was also the head of the medical unit. Specifying the month in which Ivan was called up, Gorchilin said:

– He has been called up since September, and the state pays two hundred thousand every month! What a good state we have! It would be better if they riveted cartridges in order to beat the Nazis. And we just give two hundred thousand each to a soldier who does not fulfill his duties, does not go to war in all possible ways. Can you imagine?

Lieutenant Colonel Gorchilin told Yuri Derevyanko that in agreement with the military commissar of Karelia, the conscription commission is being canceled for his son, since with category “B” he can serve in the armed forces and even go on a “special operation.” Only he should not be given weapons, since the conclusion of the commission forbids this, which means that he still will not go to war. As soon as documents arrive from Karelia, they will immediately write off Ivan from the unit. But how long the documents will take, the lieutenant colonel does not know and cannot do anything: “I did not call, I will not fire.” But he promised to call the deputy governor so that he would somehow influence the military registration and enlistment office and speed up the process of sending documents.

– I’ll just tell him: Alexander Nikolaevich, b. .! The state pays such money, but we cannot fire a person! Help, please, quickly,” said Gorchilin. – The Ministry of Defense did everything on its part: made a diagnosis, prepared documents. They recognized that Ivan could not go to war. Although the draft board sent us a man. What happened to him on the road from Karelia to Pskov, that he cannot fulfill the tasks set by the President of the Russian Federation?

Ivan Derevyanko during a psychiatric examination

“You can’t have children!”

Both Yuriy Derevianko and his mobilized son Ivan are not opposed to not seeing money “dripping” onto a bank card from the Ministry of Defense every month. And they’d rather the last seven months were just a bad dream. But alas.

– They just get paid money, it turns out! – Yuri Derevyanko is indignant. – And the fact that the guy was taken and simply pulled out of life is absolutely normal for them. Pulled out and hung like this. Imagine when a person wakes up every morning for seven months and thinks whether they will send him to war or not. This is where anyone goes crazy. On the way from home to the unit, something happened to him, you see. Yes, even when he was urgent, he had mental problems. And there is a conclusion. It’s just that the military commissar was not interested at all. One day they rowed and took away, like the rest. And we didn’t need this money for nothing! And others, I’m sure, too.

The military commissar of the Republic of Karelia Andrey Artemiev has already thought about the money of Ivan Derevyanko and another mobilized, Mark Andreev, who found himself in the same situation.

“Last month, when it became clear that Mark and I might be sent back to Karelia, we were summoned to his office by the chief medical officer,” says Ivan. – I don’t remember the exact day, in my opinion, March 14th. We entered, he dialed this Artemiev, put the phone on speakerphone. And from there insults poured in our address simply. He called us enemies and fascists.

Andrey Artemiev, Commissar of the Republic of Karelia

He was interested in the presence of reproductive organs in us and said that people like us should not have children at all. He threatened that if we returned to Karelia, he would not give us a peaceful life here. And he also ordered me to hand over all the money to the Primorye Orphans Fund upon my return. We listened to all this for about five minutes, and then left. He already negotiated something further with the chief medical officer himself.

The military commissar Artemiev himself, whom Yury Derevyanko managed to reach on the phone, said that the documents on “these two psychos” from the military registration and enlistment office had already been sent to the military unit, but in a conversation with the father of the mobilized man he began to deny that he demanded that Mark and Ivan give someone the money coming from the Ministry of Defense.

– I didn’t say anything about money! Just think for yourself: this kind of money is received not in the area of ​​the special operation. I don’t believe in all this. What money to return? You misunderstand me, – the military commissar Artemyev told his father. – I just reproached him that he sits, does nothing and receives money.

– So he did not go voluntarily.

– So what.

– You called him.

– This is the state! And I am a representative of the state! We speak different languages. And please don’t misinterpret me. Yes, you use this money, if your conscience allows you! I’d rather give it to kindergarten, to grow up another generation that cares for the fate of the state and fatherland. I have the honor, do not call me anymore!

In a conversation with Yuri Derevyanko, the colonel also said that upon arrival in Karelia, both mobilized people would undergo an in-depth medical examination and, if they were really unfit for service on psychiatric grounds, it “won’t just stay like that” and the diagnoses would be reflected everywhere. Recordings of Yuri Derevyanko’s conversations with the commander of the unit and the military commissar are at the disposal of the editors. The correspondent of Sever.Realii was unable to get a comment from the military commissar.

“I really miss him!”

Mark Andreev , who ended up in a unit near Pskov together with Ivan Derevyanko, is 22 years old. He is also from Petrozavodsk and, like Ivan, was mobilized in one day. They came to the unit together, but did not get to know each other and began to communicate immediately. Like Ivan, Mark led a quiet, inconspicuous life before mobilization. He worked at a distillery, met a girl. He completed military service three years ago. It so happened that he hit the artillery.

– There was no artillery there, we just loaded boxes. I have a specialty laboratory technician. A loader, to put it simply, says Mark. – Shooting was only before the oath. Yes, for the report. Three singles, three combat, and that’s it. There were no artillery fires.

In 2019, during the call for military service, no health problems were found in an 18-year-old boy, and during an examination at the Pskov Regional Psychiatric Hospital, he was diagnosed with a mild form of schizophrenia.

Mark and Lisa

In November, two months after the mobilization, Mark signed with his girlfriend Elizaveta, whom he had been dating for three years. On one of the days off, he received a leave of absence, and they went to the Pskov registry office.

– We arrived there together by taxi, at eight in the morning, by appointment. Without any witnesses. There, in addition to us, there were three more couples with the mobilized, – Mark recalls. – We were painted in 10 minutes, and the next couple went already. We went to a rented apartment from there. And then Liza went to Petrozavodsk, and I went to the unit. I myself suggested that she sign when all this happened. I used to want to, in fact, before they took me away. Just didn’t make it. She first came to me with my mother in October, and then she came to our wedding.

Mark’s wife, Liza, is 19 years old, and she imagined her wedding in a completely different way. The fact that on Saturday November morning she arrived in Pskov by train from Petrozavodsk, no one knew except Mark. Relatives were told everything after the registry office.

– When he received this summons, all my emotions just burst out, says Liza . – I didn’t want him to go to the draft board, but I couldn’t convince him. Too correct. We were together for another day after receiving the summons. The next evening I took him to the recruiting office. Then we only saw each other in October, when I arrived with his mother. And in November they already signed. We haven’t seen each other since then, we only call each other every day. I wanted to come, but he says that it is not necessary. I understand that it will be hard for him to go back to the unit if I come, but I still miss him a lot.

Mark and Lisa

Liza works as a daily sales assistant in a store, she began to take more shifts so as not to be at home alone. Already after the demobilization of Mark from a room in a state hostel, where they lived together for several years, she moved to a rented apartment: in a dilapidated hostel, she had to coexist with alcoholics and drug addicts. Now she lives in a small odnushka with a cat.

Lisa says that she wants children and is shocked by the colonel’s recommendation not to have them.

– How can you even talk to people like that?! And I want kids, of course. Mark doesn’t want it yet, but I do. But we ourselves are still small children.

Lisa is waiting for Mark to come home and believes that he will definitely return.

Yellow is the color of psychos

The seven months that Ivan Derevyanko and Mark Andreev spent in the barracks, according to them, simply merged into one long day.

– Wake up every morning at seven, line up at eight. Hang up at ten o’clock. And all the time between the rise and the end passes as if in a vacuum, – says Ivan Derevyanko. – I’m sitting, reading the news on my phone. We have our own Solovyov here, by the way, like on TV. During the construction, he gives a brief summary, and, well, he tries to raise morale with patriotic speeches. “We will win”, “Russia is strength” and all that. Who it is, I don’t know. Maybe a political officer. He only walks in civilian clothes, I have never seen him in uniform. He also said about the Ukrainian flag that yellow is the color of psychos.

According to Ivan, neither contractors nor mobilized soldiers particularly favor the political instructor.

Usually during the day, Ivan Derevyanko visited his father, who two months ago quit his job as a security guard and, despite poor health, came to his son to be by his side and help. Rented a small room in a guest house across the street from the unit. But the last couple of weeks the visits have stopped. The father, who had been suffering from diabetes for many years, was admitted to the hospital with gangrene on his right leg. Amputation, fortunately, was avoided, but 62-year-old Yuri Derevyanko will have a long-term treatment.

“I’m lying here and wondering why the guys are being tortured for so long,” Ivan’s father reflects. “It’s not even about health. It was clear from the very beginning that neither Vanya nor Mark could kill anyone. What’s the point of sending them? Does the state just want them to die there? May this good state leave us alone.

Despite the fact that Ivan Derevianko and Mark Andreev are being considered unfit for military service, the other day the command of the unit offered them to transfer to another type of troops: tank, artillery or motorized rifle. The mobilized wrote a report rejecting this proposal.

Sever.Realii’s correspondent sent a request to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation with a request to explain why, when sent to military unit No. 32515, Ivan Derevyanko and Mark Andreev did not pass a military medical commission, which could reveal mental disorders. The answer from the Ministry of Defense has not yet come.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022. The exact number of human losses from the Russian army is still unknown. Over the past year and two months, the Ministry of Defense has reported only a couple of times on the number of Russian military dead.