{"id":169766,"date":"2023-01-18T15:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T15:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=169766"},"modified":"2023-01-18T15:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T15:24:23","slug":"russian-deserter-lies-dead-in-a-field-after-he-was-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/russian-deserter-lies-dead-in-a-field-after-he-was-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian deserter lies dead in a field after he was shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Left to rot in the snow: Russian deserter lies dead in a field after he was shot \u2013 in what is feared to be a warning to mutineers ahead of another mass mobilisation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dmitry Perov, 31, was shot dead by Russian marksman after he fled front line<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Russian soldier&#8217;s body was left to rot in the middle of field in Russian village<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>His execution is feared to be a warning to other mutineers not to desert war<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The body of a Russian deserter was left to rot in the middle of a snowy field after the soldier was shot dead by one of Vladimir Putin&#8217;s men.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitry Perov, 31, was &#8216;liquidated&#8217; by a Russian marksman today after he fled the front line in Ukraine in what is feared to be a warning to other mutineers not to desert ahead of another mass mobilisation of Russian troops.<\/p>\n<p>Perov, who fought in Putin&#8217;s barbaric war in Ukraine before deciding to flee, left his military unit armed with an automatic weapon and ammunition and travelled 350 miles to Russia, Russian authorities claim.<\/p>\n<p>He was shot dead by a Russian soldier and his decaying body was seen lying face down in the middle of a snowy field in\u00a0Novouglyanka, a village in southwestern Russia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/01\/18\/14\/66707233-11649171-image-m-19_1674053797460.jpg\" height=\"432\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The body of Russian deserter Dmitry Perov, 31, was left to rot in the middle of a snowy field after the soldier was shot dead by one of Vladimir Putin&#8217;s men.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/01\/18\/14\/66707239-11649171-image-a-18_1674053795710.jpg\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dmitry Perov, 31, was &#8216;liquidated&#8217; by a Russian marksman today after he fled the front line in Ukraine in what is feared to be a warning to other mutineers not to desert ahead of another mass mobilisation of Russian troops<\/p>\n<p>Russian officials said they launched a manhunt for Perov after he fled his military unit.\u00a0A video showed Perov climbing onto a bus outside a station in Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was found five days later and &#8216;liquidated&#8217; today, Russian law enforcement officials said.<\/p>\n<p>An official source said: &#8216;There is no threat to residents. Pre-investigation activities are carried out.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Perov, who has a 25-year-old wife called Ekaterina Perova, was serving military unit No. 11045 of the 344th reconnaissance regiment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His execution is feared to be a warning to current and future recruits not to desert amid reports that Putin is set to massively boost military mobilisation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/01\/18\/13\/66704015-11648933-image-a-117_1674049291903.jpg\" height=\"435\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>His execution is feared to be a warning to current and future recruits not to desert amid reports that Putin is set to massively boost military mobilisation. Pictured: Putin speaks while attending a meeting with workers and veterans in\u00a0Saint Petersburg on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>It also comes after former convicts who were drafted to fight in the Ukraine war claimed Putin has a &#8216;squadron of liquidators&#8217; to publicly execute deserters.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, inmates\u00a0who were transferred from their prison cells to the war&#8217;s front lines with the Wagner Group of private mercenaries say they have witnessed disobedient comrades being killed by commanders.<\/p>\n<p>Former convict Yevgeny Novikov said told\u00a0Polygon Media\u00a0and the independent Mozhem Obyasnit outlet: &#8216;Those who disobey are eliminated \u2014 and it&#8217;s done publicly.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Novikov said the &#8216;squadrons of liquidators&#8217; deal with troops considered to be problematic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/01\/11\/11\/66448881-11622765-image-a-1_1673436000958.jpg\" height=\"346\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wagner chief\u00a0Yevgeny Prigozhin is pictured pardoning former inmates who served six months fighting in Ukraine<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/01\/18\/14\/66707285-11649171-image-a-20_1674053913001.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: Ukrainian T-72 tank manoeuvers through the trees in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>He recalled: &#8216;Shelling began, one of the prisoners laid down and didn&#8217;t cover his own [men].\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The shelling stopped, he went back, and the higher-up shouted to him: &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you go forward?&#8221; And they killed him. The higher-up is killed if his team deserts.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>There are complaints among Russian soldiers of equipment shortages, poor living conditions and scant training for new recruits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since Putin announced the mobilization of 300,000 Russians on September 21, independent media, human rights activists and those called up have painted a bleak picture of a haphazard and chaotic effort to round up as many men as possible and push them quickly to the front lines, regardless of skill, training and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Conscription protests have been harshly put down, and tens of thousands of men fled Russia to neighbouring countries to avoid being pressed into service.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it emerged in October last year that Russia is reportedly setting up a second line of troops behind the front line in Ukraine to shoot down any Russian soldiers fleeing combat, according to an intercepted phone call.<\/p>\n<p>In the audio, described by Ukraine as an intercepted phone call between a Russian soldier and his wife, the man describes how his commander has ordered him to &#8216;wipe out&#8217; any Russian troops who flee from the front line.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian soldier said that new recruits, many of whom are prisoners, are on the front line and his unit has been positioned on a second line to shoot anyone who tries to run away.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Russian soldier tells his wife: &#8216;They moved us back to the second line, there&#8217;s shooting somewhere ahead of us, but we&#8217;re back for now in the trenches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They brought the inmates here from prison but they led them somewhere on the front. And we&#8217;re sitting here as a retreat-blocking detachment.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;If someone runs back, we snuff them out.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11649171\/Russian-deserter-lies-dead-field-shot.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left to rot in the snow: Russian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Russian deserter lies dead in a field after he was shot - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/russian-deserter-lies-dead-in-a-field-after-he-was-shot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russian deserter lies dead in a field after he was shot - 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