Several prisoner soldiers escaped from the scene of the accident while they were being escorted to a military unit in northern Russia; the fugitives were subsequently detained. This was reported on Telegram by the Russian publication Astra, which positions itself as independent..

" They were taken from prison to a military unit,"

The day before, a minibus and a dump truck collided on the Sortavala highway near Petrozavodsk. " They were heading from Petrozavodsk to a military unit in the Leningrad region.

According to local media, 13 people were injured as a result of the collision.. Three prisoners who escaped from the scene of the accident were subsequently detained.

The press service of the Leningrad Military District confirmed the accident and named the truck driver as the culprit..

See the photo gallery: In Russia, prison soldiers deserted due to a road accident - media In Russia, prison soldiers deserted due to a road accident pic. twitter.

com/LJtiEbaThu — Maxim (@lipcansmaks1) October 18, 2025 Let us recall that the Main Intelligence Directorate stated that the number of deserters in the Russian army is growing significantly: in nine months more than 25 thousand military personnel fled from the Central Military District.

Note that the partisans previously reported that the Russians have created “field courts” in their army that punish deserters with torture and force them to fight each other to death.

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