A video of the so-called “concentration and rehabilitation” center, actually a torture chamber of the FSB, where Russian soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine are kept, has appeared in Russian Telegram channels, independent researcher Chris Owen reports.

According to reports on Russian social media, the prison holds about 230 people, most of whom were included under President Vladimir Putin’s “partial mobilization” decree last year.

Owen reminds that since November of last year there have been constant rumors in Russia that some Russian soldiers who refuse to fight, whom their comrades nicknamed “refusaries”, are imprisoned and tortured in the basement of the cultural center in the village. the village of Zaytseve, located in the Luhansk region, is occupied by the forces sent by Vladimir Putin to Ukraine.

The video, which appeared on Russian Telegram channels, shows a large number of men being kept in near total darkness, with only one light source visible in the room, apart from a hand-held flashlight, which the military uses to show the conditions in which the soldiers are kept. are stored

The site is called “the center of concentration and rehabilitation of the armed forces of the Russian Federation”, it is noted that it is officially used for “combatants brought for rehabilitation after hostilities”.

He wryly describes the conditions, saying that “we sleep here, it’s very comfortable, warm,” adding that the men seen on the floor are “trying on plywood blankets.” “Super hyper anti-Sovietism!” another man can be heard on the recording.

At 1:12, he points to a side room filled with trash, stating that the inmates use it as a toilet. “It’s not quite a court,” he says of the military detention facility, adding that “everything is up in the air here.”

Chris Owen points out that he is probably referring to the men who were periodically taken outside by FSB officers to be tortured on the upper floors of the building.

Russian soldiers who refuse to fight are “processed” by the FSB

According to other Russian soldiers, the men are being taken to Zaytsevo from detention centers under the supervision of the military prosecutor’s office in Troitskyi and Rozsypnoi, two other cities in the Luhansk region, where political officers are pressuring them to “refusal” to return to the front line.

Those who still refuse are taken to Zaitsevo to be “processed” by the FSB, Russia’s Federal Security Service, the successor to the dreaded Soviet-era KGB.

Dmytro Karpov, a Russian soldier captured by Ukrainians, said he was imprisoned here, tortured and starved for 15 days last November before being transferred to another facility.

Another Russian soldier who was imprisoned in Zaitsevo last November managed to send a text message to his wife, with some soldiers apparently managing to hide their phones from guards.

“My dear, we are sitting in cells, food and water have been forbidden to us. They (not guards) don’t even let us go to the toilet, they try to send us to the front line by force. They don’t conduct an investigation, they don’t take us to a pre-trial detention center, they say that they will take us to the front without weapons at gunpoint. Maybe we’ll see each other [din nou] (…) I love you all, I’m tired of keeping my mouth shut,” he wrote.

He also noted that “Colonels Rumyantsev and Doroshenko” will be responsible for the situation.

Putin’s army will send the “recusants” into battle anyway

Researcher Chris Owen notes that Rumyantsev is the deputy commander for “military-political issues” of the First Tank Army of the Western Military District of the Russian Armed Forces, essentially a political officer responsible for “morale.”

As for Doroshenko, the soldier most likely meant Colonel Yevgeny Volodymyrovych Doroshenko, the commander of the 47th Tank Division of the 1st Tank Army. According to the stories of Russian soldiers, Rumyantsev should have been directly responsible for the organization of the torture of “refusals”, while Doroshenko was in overall command.

The woman who received the message said that she had turned to the military authorities with a statement about the illegal treatment of her husband and his comrades.

“After we wrote an appeal to the military unit that they were being held in cells, they were forcibly searched and all remaining phones were taken away. They sit in their shit and are hungry. And after that they were told to “go and fight,” said a woman who was following.

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