The prosecutor has promised to return home Viktor Dyachok, the 59-year-old surgeon with stage one skin cancer previously sent to military drills as part of the mobilisation process and appointed platoon commander, his daughter Polina tells Novaya Gazeta. Europe.
She shared that today, 25 September, the prosecutor had summoned her father and promised him that at 2PM he would be put on a bus to Yekaterinburg.
Viktor Dyachok after the mobilisation. Photo provided by his daughter Polina
Previously, the military enlistment office in the town of Asbest, Yekaterinburg region, mobilised the 59-year-old surgeon despite his stage one skin cancer diagnosis, his daughter Polina Dyachok told Novaya Gazeta. Europe yesterday, 24 September.
Viktor is the chief of surgery in Asbest’s city hospital. According to his daughter, he was at work on 22 September. At 7PM, he was called in by Human Resources, handed an enlistment notice, fired, and asked to pack and come into the military enlistment office the next morning. Viktor Dyachok graduated from the military department [of a university], he is considered a senior lieutenant of medical service of reserve troops.
On 23 September, he came to the military office, where he was at once put on a bus with other mobilised men and sent to military drills.
“He went to the enlistment office in the morning, hoping to undergo a medical commission. Dad has stage one skin cancer, kidney stones, he is completely blind in one eye, he can’t see anything at all without glasses, he suffers from astigmatism, hypertension, age-related deafness. <...>
There still has been no mention of undergoing a medical commission. In his hospital, no one argued against [his enlistment], everyone is carrying out the plan, everyone is complying with the orders from above,”
his daughter Polina Dyachok said yesterday.
The man, who will turn 60 in three months, was sent to military drills in the settlement Yelan in the Volgograd region.
He was appointed platoon commander.
According to Polina, he commanded around 19 people; there were plans to send their platoon to the occupied territories to form a medical unit in two weeks.
“He and I video chat, but we have already been asked to bring in a push-button phone for him, because when he will be sent to war in two weeks, he will be without a normal phone, he will only have the push-button one. Dad is in shock, he won’t even say anything, he’s in a depressed state, but he tries to stay calm so he won’t upset me or mom, so we don’t worry, he’s restricted in his emotions, tries not to showcase them at all,” Polina said yesterday.
According to Polina, she was not able to contact anyone from the military enlistment office. The Novaya Gazeta. Europe correspondent also was not able to get through to the regional military office. When she called the mobilisation hotline, Polina was told that her father should not have been drafted; they recorded his information, yet, as of yesterday, nothing was done.
“In two weeks, he will be sent to the territories far away from us, to the medical unit. [He will have to] save [people], treat [people], give back to homeland. But my father has spent his entire life repaying his debt to homeland as it is, by operating and saving lives every day. What’s next… Inside me, there is panic, anger, fear, desperation, and anger again,” Polina emphasised at the time.
According to the mobilisation law, citizens deemed temporarily unfit for military service for health reasons cannot be mobilised. Viktor’s conditions make him unfit for service, however, the military commission ignored that fact.
On 24 September, Chairman of the Presidential Human Rights Council Valery Fadeev criticised Russia’s Ministry of Defence for the “‘stick system’ logic” used for formation of a mobilised contingent.
He pointed out that 70 fathers of four and more children had been mobilised in Buryatia. After the head of Buryatia had interfered, they were returned home. Fadeev also said that nurses and midwives with no experience of work in emergencies had been mobilised under the threat of criminal proceedings in the Yekaterinburg region, while a 58-year-old school principal had been drafted in the Volgograd region and a 57-year-old pensioner-agronomist with a disabled daughter in his care had been drafted in the Smolensk region.
