Military investigative unit for Russia’s Vladimir garrison has opened a criminal case after conscript Sergey Gridin committed suicide, Gridin’s sister Valeria told Novaya Gazeta Europe citing the lawyer.
According to her, the investigation is looking into a suicide encouragement charge. The agency did not respond to Novaya-Europe’s request to comment.
Earlier, Sergey Gridin, a conscript from Russia’s Komi, took his own life at a military base. The man left a suicide note where he said that he had been “put on the Ukraine rotation list”. “I have made a decision: I will die on my own land without foreign blood on my hands,” he wrote.
According to Gridin’s sister, “he was planning to leave the army on medical grounds”.
“He was diagnosed with retinal abiotrophy in Moscow, a rare degenerative hereditary condition that affects the eye retina. My aunt and dad mailed him the original document for a checkup. At the base, he received a treatment of injections and pills. And then the original checkup documents disappeared somewhere,” Valeria said.