 Conscripts who complained to Putin wiped out in battle. Nearly all the Irkutsk region conscripts whose video appeals to President Vladimir Putin decrying their lack of training made headlines last February are believed to have died in Ukraine's Donetsk region on March the 1st, the Sibir-Rili website reported. The unit's members came to prominence in February 2022 when its recently mobilized made their video appeals to the Russian president complaining of being made subordinate to officers from the Donetsk People's Republic, a self-proclaimed separatist entity whose territory was annexed by Russia in February 2022. The men also complained of being sent to storm Ukrainian positions with insufficient training and a total lack of military intelligence. They claimed they had been warned they would be shot if they refused to follow orders. According to information, only a few unit members are still alive with much of the regiment being wiped out after being ordered to storm a fortified area in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. While a few fighters apparently survived the mission with injuries, the units of the servicemen who are currently listed as missing are believed to have been killed according to their relatives. My husband called back. He has a shrapnel wound in the hospital. He says there is nothing left of the regiment. Only two wounded are known to have survived so far. The rest are either dead or were left there in a difficult situation. The wife of one of the conscripts told. She claimed her wounded husband had already been told he would be sent back to the front line again in a week. After the conscript's three public appeals last year, the Irkutsk regional governor Igor Govzev himself, a general and a former deputy head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, promised they would be reassigned to other duties. At a meeting with mothers of dead soldiers in Irkutsk in November, Govzev made headlines once again when he said that the women's sons belonged to the state rather than to their families.