Russian soldiers return from Ukraine increasingly violent and aggressive
A new wave of crime is feared, especially in Caucasian Russia. The soldiers return home with no psychological barriers to keep them from violence. The State takes no responsibility and does nothing to rehabilitate those returning from war.
Moscow (AsiaNews) - Throughout Russia, especially in the Caucasus, there are fears of a new wave of crime linked to the return of combatants to Ukraine, recalling a similar phenomenon after the two wars in Chechnya. This was reported by Kavkaz.Realii after a survey among the population. Reports of domestic violence, murders for refusing to marry, robberies and street violence, threats and murders of businessmen and traders are increasingly frequent in the press.
The lawyer from Nizhny Novgorod, Sergey Babinets, president of the humanitarian association 'Team Against Torture', explains that 'those who return from war actions and take up civilian work can pose a threat to the people around them; those who have killed on the battlefield no longer have psychological barriers to keep them from violence'. The orders of commanders are indeed to have no qualms about killing.
In southern Russia and the North Caucasus, the growth of aggression is very visible. In August, an army officer shot a taxi driver in Rostov-on-Don, just because of differences of opinion on the war. Similar incidents ended in bloodshed in Bol'šaja Martynovka and Gelendžik, not far from Rostov.
The relatives of the returned soldiers generally do not want to talk to the press, for fear of reactions from their relatives. Some responded with bogus names, such as Albina from Nalčik, a small town in Kabardino-Balkaria in the Caucasus, whose brother had volunteered in the Ukrainian war and returned home at the end of May. "He hardly ever talks about the war, every now and then he complains that the volunteers are not given enough weapons and ammunition, or that the tanks get bogged down on the ground, and that corruption is widespread in the army," Albina says. According to the woman, 'now in normal life he only looks for enemies to attack, starting with relatives... I am afraid it will get worse and worse'.
Apti from Ingushetia says that his half-brother came back from Ukraine 'as if he were made of glass, very fragile and very nervous, he always goes around wearing a mask, even though no one wears it any more, and he doesn't want to be photographed... he doesn't react to anything, but if he gets too nervous, he starts screaming like a madman, then he remains motionless in silence for hours'. The man was not a volunteer: the authorities forced him to enrol as he was tied to a military facility for work, and now 'his mother treats him with holy water and readings from the Koran, while I think he should go and see the doctors'. Apti's half-brother is also subject to strong criticism from people who consider him too cowardly, or too pacifist.
Nadir, who lives in Dagestan, has a son who came back from the war with serious leg injuries, but who wants to return to the front at all costs. "In Ukraine, they took him for a 'kadyrovets', a Chechen butcher under the orders of President Kadyrov, with whom he had nothing to do, because the Ukrainians do not distinguish between Caucasians and do not want to take them prisoner, but try to kill them all, and many are dead". Nadir explains that his son wants to go back to the war: 'He says they pay well, but I won't let him go, especially after his son also enlisted'.
Karina lives in Chechnya, and since the beginning of the war she has buried first two uncles, then some cousins: 'Only two came back wounded, all the others wrapped in cloth, one was closed in the coffin because he had been torn to pieces'. She had to leave her boyfriend, who had already gone twice to Ukraine as a gunner, and on his return he was more and more aggressive, hitting Karina several times: 'I was in a shop, he came in drunk, he wanted to grab me in front of everyone, he was shouting at me as if he was in jail, and not in normal life'. The cameras caught him and the police punished him with a week's detention, but the risks of women and normal people are not easily avoided, as many other stories testify.
Humanitarian activist Svetlana Gannuškina bitterly concludes that 'the state does not want to take any responsibility for these situations, and does nothing for the rehabilitation of returning soldiers', leaving Russian and Caucasian society to slide further and further into barbarism.
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