Officer Shot a Conscript for Refusing to Sign a Contract and Go to War

A single shot on a windy training ground is written up as “negligence.” Artyom Antonov’s family says it was an execution for refusing to sign a combat contract. In this episode, we reconstruct the killing of a 19-year-old conscript in Primorsky Krai, name the officer who pulled the trigger, and follow the paper trail of coercion—threats, forged signatures, and “administrative pressure”—that has pushed teenagers from barracks to the front. We also examine the Sakhalin case of Nikita Molochkovsky, declared dead after a contract experts say he never signed, and ask what accountability looks like when every witness is afraid to speak.