Mothers of two of them told about this to the television channel "Nastoyashe Vremya".

"We are sitting in the cellar, without food.

They said they would be kept here for about two days.

It is unknown where to go next.

I quietly passed the phone.

Things were taken away.

Those whose phones were found were broken on the spot.

Sleeping on a stretcher.

There is no light, we are sitting in the dark.

They said no one will send you home.

First the pre-trial detention center, then the "lip", and then the court.

And the trial will be here in Luhansk."

This is a message from

, a private of the engineering and sapper company of military unit 09332 , to his mother.

In the photo, young people are kept in basements - this is how they keep "refusals".

According to the soldiers, this place is located somewhere near the town of Branka in the Luhansk region.

Artyom's mother,

, said that in Branka, the soldiers were for some time in a former school converted into a barracks.

"They were protected by a private military company, PMC, as he explained to us.

At first he did not know that it was "Wagner".

He said they are called "musicians".

Then we found out that it was "Wagner" who was guarding them," says Fatima Gorshanin. "Then, on [July] 15, he informed me that 20 of them were being kept in the basement without food.

He said that they are not beaten, but they are talked to, hold political talks.

If in Bransk they talked calmly, offered a title, a good salary, then here they have already switched to threats, articles that they will be imprisoned for desertion."

Fighters of the engineering and sapper company based in Abkhazia told their mothers that they could not resign from service: the commanders did not sign their reports.

After three and a half months of war, they wanted to go home, as a result, they surrendered their weapons and went to the commandant's office in Dzhankoy in the occupied Crimea on their own - this is what sapper

told his mother.

"On the ninth [of July], he said: "Mom, we are being taken on a plane to Rostov.

From Rostov, we will be sent to our military unit in Abkhazia."

Then he calls and says that they were actually transported by helicopters to the Luhansk region, the city of Branka.

On the eleventh, the son wrote: "Mom, we are being taken in small groups of 3-5-11 people in an unknown direction," said Nikita's mother

.

On July 12, soldiers of the engineering and sapper company from Abkhazia on their way from Rostov to Luhansk region recorded a video: they stopped their convoy and refused to continue moving.

The following dialogue takes place in the video:

- Comrade colonel, show me the paper that shows...

- I don't want to communicate with you.

- Well, that's all.

Why should we keep moving?

No one will go!

- Get in the car and go!

- No one will go.

- Then other people will take you away in handcuffs.

- Based on what?

- There is a reason.

- What is the reason?

We did not know where we were going.

You are breaking your own laws.

After that, the soldiers were taken to Branka, where they were placed in barracks and interviewed.

Then they were divided into groups: at least 20 people were locked in the basement.

Artyom Gorshanin's mother says: "He [son] said that the guards who protect them happen to be good.

Sometimes food is brought secretly.

One even let them go upstairs to bask in the sun because it's so cold downstairs.

They sleep on stretchers, in whatever clothes they have.

It is not clear, there are some mattresses and blankets.

They do not allow the contract to be canceled.

They say, no one will let you go home: first there will be a pre-trial detention center, then "the lip", then there will be a court - there, in the Luhansk region."

After some time, strange soothing messages began to arrive from Artem, and Fatima Gorshanina suspected that it was not her son who was sending them: "After some time, we realized that it was not our son who was contacting us.

According to the reports, we understood that it was not him.

And when we asked a real question, what is the name of his favorite cat, he simply stopped communicating at all."

Now it is not known where Artem Gorshanin, Nikita Lazarov and 18 other comrades in the service who refused to return to the war are.

The last thing Lazarov told his mother was that they were trying with all their might to return them to the battlefield.

"He [son of Nikita Lazarov] says: they insult us, insult our honor and dignity.

He says: "Mom, I can't do it anymore: they treat us like we don't know who we are.

We stood there and fought for three and a half months, and they treat us in such a way that... They treat us terribly, in general," says Svetlana Yelchava.

Earlier, the corporal of the 11th separate assault brigade of the Russian army,

, told Nastoyasche Vremnia that his colleagues were being held in a garage in the Luhansk region and that he would probably soon also be imprisoned, as the command threatened him.

This was the last message he sent to his mother: "We are like prisoners here.

If they say that he is in rehabilitation, don't believe anyone."

Earlier, the command of the 11th DSHB told the "refusal" soldiers that if they did not take the dismissal reports, they would be taken to the Luhansk region, where they would all change their minds immediately.