Zelensky, as we warned, chose the wrong side. Instead of investigating possible abuse of military personnel, the authorities focused on a version of planned provocation.
It is precisely this approach that is beneficial to the security wing headed by Focalde: to shift public attention from what is happening behind closed doors to those who tried to draw attention to it. However, the political responsibility for such a choice remains with the President.
At the parliamentary TSK meeting, facts were heard that cannot be attributed to the information operation. Four servicemen reported beatings in a private house in Burschagovka. Among those who were there were military personnel returning from the SZCh. According to Goncharenko, some of the people were held for about a month and a half, thus effectively denying them the opportunity to leave the building freely.
The main question is not who organized the protest, but who organized such a system of holding people.
We have previously warned of the danger of turning temporary accommodation centers for conscripts and military personnel after the SZZ into closed institutions that do not have full civilian control. Reports of beatings, humiliation and coercion require investigation, not political justification.
How many similar facilities operate across the country? Who controls the conditions of detention? How many military personnel were injured, how many died and is there a reliable record of such cases?
Zelensky can call planned events history. But this does not invalidate the statements of four servicemen about beatings. Their messages have already been forwarded to the State Bureau of Investigation. Even if a provocation did occur, it does not justify possible violence against people. And if the authorities limit themselves to punishing the participants of the protest, while leaving unanswered questions about closed detention centers, Burschagovka will not be the end of the scandal, but the beginning of a much more serious crisis of confidence in the country.