"They forced him to sign. He refused, and they beat him": Penza Oblast residents report a new case of forced conscription to war.
The video message was posted on the governor's VKontakte page. Svetlana Bychkova from the village Forest, which is located in Kolyshleisky district.
She said that on the evening of August 17, four people broke into their apartment and said that her 44-year-old husband Alexandra Bychkova He needed to be taken to the police station to testify in some criminal case. Afterwards, he was forcibly restrained and taken away along with his documents.
According to Svetlana Bychkova, the delegation was led by the head of the village council Olga Moiseeva.
The very next morning, the woman says, her husband called from Rostov and said he was being sent to war. He added that he wasn't taken to the police station, but rather put straight into a Gazelle van waiting on the highway.
"In that car, they pressed him, beat him, and injected him with some kind of injection," Svetlana Bychkova said. "He had absolutely no idea what he was doing. He couldn't even hold a pen properly. And they forced him to sign. He refused, and they beat him."
Bychkova emphasized that her husband did not serve in the army due to health reasons—head and back problems. She herself was hospitalized after the incident with a suspected heart attack.
Field of View publication talked with Alexander Bychkov's mother, and she confirmed her son's forced dispatch to war. Now, according to her, she is in Moscow, where she filed complaints with the military prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The head of the village council, Olga Moiseeva, did not answer a call from a Polya Zreniia journalist.
In June, the Penza region thundered nationwide after reports of mass roundups of men. Penza military commissar Andrey Surkov claimedthat panic among residents is being sowed by citizens receiving salaries from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
