The mother of Ivan Isaikhin, a 42-year-old man from Omsk, says her son was taken to the Sirius-55 military recruitment center under the pretext of resolving unpaid child support and was beaten there. He later entered the Russian military, and the family received a notice listing him as missing. His mother gave the account to ASTRA, which also examined documents about Isaikhin’s service and medical treatment.
His mother said Isaikhin had been led to expect a meeting with court bailiffs but was instead taken to a facility where military contracts were processed. The report says he later spent about six weeks receiving treatment in hospitals in Bryansk, Tula and Moscow. Medical records described by the journalists listed a traumatic brain injury, a brain contusion, hemorrhaging, hematomas and broken ribs. Those documents do not establish where or by whom the injuries were inflicted.
According to documents described by ASTRA, Isaikhin’s contract with the Russian Defense Ministry is dated July 10, 2026, and he was assigned to military unit No. 78568. In August he reached the unit’s operational group in Yekaterinburg and was then sent to Millerovo in the Rostov region. He was granted 45 days of medical leave beginning September 13, but the outlet said he was sent to a combat zone instead of being allowed to recuperate.
His mother said she last spoke to him on October 3, when he was near military unit No. 91706 in the Donetsk region. She alleged that Isaikhin was forced to withdraw 450,000 rubles on the promise that he would not be sent on an assault mission, but was nonetheless sent on an assignment on October 6. Neither the transfer of money nor the involvement of specific individuals in the alleged demand has been independently established.
The family received a notice saying Isaikhin had been missing since October 18 near Sofiivka in the Donetsk region. A military prosecutor’s document described by ASTRA, however, puts his departure on a combat mission in September, conflicting with his mother’s account that he was sent on October 6.
In a Novaya Gazeta Europe report, the rights group Prizyv k Sovesti said it had received five complaints from Omsk between August 12 and October 12 concerning alleged coercion into military contracts. Relatives reported beatings in three of the cases. Those accounts concern other people and do not establish what happened to Isaikhin.