A database of AWOL servicemen from the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation has been leaked online.

The “Do not wait for good news” Telegram channel published the data.

The main document contains the names of 19,210 Russian servicemen who were put on the wanted list for this offense.

These are mostly privates, including corporals, sergeants, and some officers.

The document also contains additional spreadsheets with data on 6,085 people who have already been found.

It is noted that two-thirds of the soldiers of the Southern Military District of Russia who left the military unit without permission or deserted were mobilized for the war against Ukraine.

The Telegram channel noted that more than half of these soldiers were part of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps, which had the names of the so-called “people’s militias” of the DPR and LPR, controlled and created by Russia in 2014 in the temporarily occupied territory of Donbas.

It is emphasized that the published number of 19210 servicemen of the invading Russian army does not reflect the full picture of soldiers going AWOL.

This is due to the fact that this database does not include those soldiers who, for various reasons, were not put on the wanted list by military unit commanders, who limited their search to involving their own search teams.

Militarnyi recently reported that three Russian conscripts who were suing the Russian Defense Ministry over their forged signatures in contracts were killed in the fighting against Ukraine.

They were natives of Sakhalin (Karafuto) who had been fighting for almost nine months. However, in December, it was reported that Viktor Baturin, the last of them, had died.

It was only after the death of the conscripts that experts officially confirmed that their signatures had been forged.