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Russian recruit, 25, jumps 100 feet to his death in front of his mother after being ordered back to war zone, as Moscow ‘covers up’ spate of suicides.
- Mikhail Lyubimov’s mother saw him jump from a window on her tenth floor.
- His death comes amid a surge in suicides that Moscow is accused of ‘covering up’
A Russian soldier in Putin’s war “taken his own life” by falling 100 feet from a tower after being ordered back to the combat zone the next day.
Mikhail Lyubimov, 25, was seen by his mother, a Russian Foreign Ministry cleaner, jumping from a window in their 10th-floor apartment, according to reports.
His death comes amid a surge in war-linked suicides that Russian authorities regard as a “cover-up.”
The mobilized man had suffered “panic attacks” and started drinking because of his feared return to war, said his mother Natalia, 43, who works in the foreign ministry empire of Putin’s top diplomat Sergei Lavrov. .
Russian fighter Mikhail Lyubimov, 25, jumped from his 10th-story window instead of returning to fight in Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Mikhail Lyubimov’s death comes amid a surge in war-linked suicides that Russian authorities are ‘covering up’
Previously, Lyubimov had served as a conscript in the navy, but was recruited as a soldier in the Ukrainian war zone.
He died in Moscow’s Tsaritsyno district on his first break from action, a day before he was to report for another stint at the front.
“Natalia said she saw her son jump out of a window of her tenth-floor apartment,” one report said.
“The woman called the police and the ambulance, but the man could not be saved.”
When he was sent off to war in October, his girlfriend of many years, Ksenia, had posted: “You will be back.”
Some details have emerged of other men taking their own lives rather than fight in Putin’s war, but there are claims that many more such cases have not been revealed publicly.
Vladimir Potanin, 46, from the Kurgan, “committed suicide with a razor” at a training center in the Sverdlovsk region less than a week after being mobilized.
A 28-year-old man, mobilized from Shushary, Leningrad Region, took his own life at a training center in Vyborg on October 2.
Alexander Ivanov, 57, a mobilized lieutenant from St. Petersburg, was found dead in the village of Krupets, Kursk region, before being sent to the front.
Denis R., 33, a mobilized man from Revda, Sverdlovsk region, committed suicide in Belgorod region shortly before being sent to Ukraine.
Reports also say recruits from rejects are often held in makeshift prisons of hell near war zones as commanders seek to intimidate them into joining the war.
Mikhail Lyubimov was killed in Moscow’s Tsaritsyno district in his first break from action, a day before he was to report for another stint on the front lines.