Alexander Koltun, 35, a volunteer from Bratsk, died at an army training camp in Russia’s Novosibirsk, Tayga.info reports, citing his mother.
“On 28 September, he volunteered for the draft, he was completely sober. On 2 October, he died in Novosibirsk, supposedly from a heart attack, although he never had heart problems,” his mother Elena Gudo said. “The last time he called me was on 2 October at 4:30, he said they weren’t provided with uniforms, everyone’s drunk and wobbling. We can’t take away the body, the government does not help us in any way, we’ve been left with no information for three days. Think twice before sending your children there.”
“Some people are trying to tell me on the phone that he died from alcohol poisoning, that he’d been drinking there for days. Now they’re saying it was heart failure… But the thing is, my son has never abused alcohol. He went to Ukraine on his own volition, he knew what he was doing. He called me from the training camp and said it was a mess there, no one supervised the conscripts, everyone did what they want,” she said in an Odnoklassniki (Russian social network also known as OK) post.
Gudo added that her son had six children dependant on him. He lived with a woman who had four kids from her first marriage. Koltun had another child from a different relationship and one more kid with the woman he cohabited with.
Earlier, PenzaInform news outlet reported that a conscript had died during training. Reportedly, he had a heart attack.