Read also: The Kremlin is planning a new wave of mobilization after the New Year, Russian media reports According to the women, the units in which their relatives serve are suffering huge losses, but the Russian military command forbids them to retreat under the threat of summary execution. Read also: Wives of soldiers from Buryatia demand the return of husbands from the war in Ukraine “They were scattered along the entire line (of contact) from Kharkiv to the Makiyivka regions,” said one of the invaders’ wives. “(My husband) called the day before yesterday — they left the front line, they hid in some village, but they can’t get out because the checkpoints just won’t let them through. They are immediately threatened with shooting.” Read also: Kremlin issues blacklist of outspoken Russian MPs not to mention war Her story echoes in many ways what relatives of other conscripts say. The soldiers, armed only with rifles, are constantly under artillery fire and cannot resist the Ukrainian army. At the same time, they have only one cell phone per 150 people, and everyone can talk to their relatives only for a minute or a minute and a half. “He called and said, ‘I’m alive. Still alive.’ I asked him: “When did you eat or drink?” He said, “The last time we drank water was three days ago,” the woman recalled. Read also: Putin announces the end of the mobilization in Russia Another wife of one of the conscripts complained that efforts to reach someone in a position of power in Russia had yielded no results. He stressed that any requests to allow soldiers to leave the war zone only complicate matters, as “those who submit such requests will immediately be declared deserters.” According to another woman, seven people from a company sent to the front line immediately returned to their base after arriving in the Luhansk region. Read also: Ukrainian intelligence names countries aiding Russia’s full-scale war The story continues “After that, the company commander tied their hands, painted crosses (on their foreheads) with green paint and started beating them, calling them deserters,” he told the BBC. “He later took these seven men and no one saw them again.” The woman added that all the mobilisers are being used as cannon fodder to provoke the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack them, thereby revealing the firing positions of the Ukrainian army. Read the original article in The New Voice of Ukraine