Russian conscripts’ families ask Putin to send them back to Russia: they don’t want to be cannon fodderKATERYNA TYSHCHENKO – SATURDAY, 15 OCTOBER 2022, 23:22The families of conscripts living in Fokino in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, have appealed to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, asking for their relatives to be sent back to Russia."The whole organisation of the conscription was wrong from the beginning... conscripts have been dumped in occupied territories without any training," one of the women says in the appeal to Putin."The officers of the Soloti unit are threatening the conscripts with criminal liability, [but they’re] not refusing to go and defend our Bryansk Oblast.Moreover, according to SOTA, another 200 conscripts, including some from Bryansk Oblast, have been in occupied territory in Ukraine for over a week, without either food or constant communication and not knowing their exact location.Previously: On 15 October, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation reported that citizens of "a CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States] country" had opened fire on "volunteers" preparing to fight against Ukraine at a training ground of the Western Military District in Belgorod Oblast; 11 people were killed in the attack and 15 were hospitalised."