Lt. Col. Roman Malyk (49), was responsible for enlisting men to the mobilisation campaign launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin to bolster Russian forces in Ukraine by a force of 300,000 conscripts.
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Malyk was pronounced dead at his home in a village in the Russian Primorsky region, TheMirror reports.
Questionable Suicide
According to reports, the Russian official died from hanging near a fence at his home and local police have opened up a murder probe, however suicide has not been ruled out, the Hindustan Times reports
A military commissar in charge of enlistment for Putin’s chaotic mobilisation campaign, Lt-Col Roman Malyk, 49, has been found dead in suspicious circumstances prompting murder investigation. His body was discovered near the fence of his home in the Primorsky region of Russia. pic.twitter.com/MzFy54TTe7
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TheTimes, describe the 'chatter' in the Telegram messaging app, where the mysterious ‘suicide’ of Malyk was put in doubt, according to ‘relatives he was well-adjusted and self-assured’.
Growing resentment
Roman Malyk, was in charge of following up on Moscow orders for troop movement for the Ukraine War.
Ever since the mobilisation decree was signed by Vladimir Putin in September, reports suggest that more than 220,000 men have been thus far enlisted.
Enlistment officers accompanied by local police authorities were in many cases forcibly taking up men who were resisting the conscription orders, The Times reports.
This stirred up growing resentment against conscription, the institutions, and officials fulfilling the orders.
As a result, during this period as many as 70 enlistment offices have been attacked with molotov cocktails as a token of increasing resentment in Russia against mobilisation.
Sources used:
-The Mirror: ‘Putin's head of Ukraine mobilisation campaign found dead in 'suspicious circumstances'
-Hindustan Times: ‘Vladimir Putin's head of Ukraine mobilisation dies in possible suicide: Report’
-The Times: ‘Doubts over ‘suicide’ of Russian who sent men to war’
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