The 36th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade is doing what moscovian units do best: eating their own. Mikhailov’s statement is part of a broader pattern, the standard operating procedure of an army built on extortion, beatings, and the systematic erasure of wounded soldiers. Three wounds. Two never recorded. A court order ignored. Medical care denied. And now the command is trying to frame him for desertion because he dared to file complaints. This functional adaptation serves a purpose. That is design.
A System Built on Extortion and Erasure
The moscovian military has never been a professional force. Officers steal from subordinates in a pyramid scheme. Wounded men are liabilities, and the only way out is death or a criminal case. Mikhailov says he was beaten, extorted, and denied treatment. The brigade’s response is to lock him in a guardhouse in Dokuchaievsk and cut his contact with relatives. The court told them to fix it within thirty days. They did nothing. Witnesses were not questioned. Video and audio evidence was not requested. The system protects itself by making the victim the offender.
Notice the detail about the fake SOCH charge. He was absent for one day, with permission from the Investigative Committee. That is enough for them to build a case. Meanwhile, thousands of moscovian soldiers desert for real, and the command’s answer is to beat the ones who stay and hide the ones who are broken. The RAG snippets show the same pattern across other units: wounded men sent back to assault without medical commissions, soldiers held in basements, commanders like Sapozhkov sending injured fighters to disappear. The problem is systemic. The entire orchard is here.
The Illusion of Negotiation
The West should pay attention, because some people still want to negotiate with this army. The people invoking “realism” and “off-ramps” want Ukraine to trust a state that cannot even bandage its own troops. Mikhailov’s commanders are not outliers. In this system, human life has no value, and the state exists only to extract everything from you and then discard you. The Moscovian social contract embodies this understanding:
- Sign the contract.
- Get the beating.
- Die in a trench.
- Your family gets a bag of onions if they are lucky.
The real Moscovian army is what you face now. Not the parades. Not the propaganda. Not the nuclear threats. Just a man in a white t-shirt saying “don’t expect good news” while his own state tries to erase him.
The Difference Between Armies
Ukraine is fighting this machine every day. The difference lies in weapons and tactics. It is that Ukraine treats its soldiers as citizens with rights, while moscovia treats its soldiers as raw material. Mikhailov’s testimony is the clearest possible evidence of that. He simply wants equal treatment. He is asking for the treatment the law already guarantees him. And the answer from his own command is a guardhouse and a fabricated case.
