Thread by @kromark

🧵 Here's a video of a Russian soldier who was mobilized recently. He was sent to the "1st tank regiment" (probably 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division) and says they will be sent to Kherson in 2 days without any basic training. I found his VK and reached out to him.

Here's full translation of his address. 1/2: "Hi everyone, the first tank regiment is here. We were officially told that there would be no training before we will be sent to the war zone. The regiment’s commanders confirmed this. On September 29 we’re will be sent to Kherson".

Translation, 2/2: "Think for yourself, decide for yourself what to do with it in the future. There was no shooting training, no theoretical training, nothing".

I found Vkontakte account of this man. Yesterday he posted a photo of himself in the barracks.

Answering a comment which said "how unexpectedly!" he describes how he ended up there: "Yes, I didn't expect it too. Was sleeping after the night shift. They woke me up and gave me a subpoena [to show up in the Military reg. office]

The guy was living and working in Moscow. He doesn't seem to be anti-Western or "patriotic". He even reposted this meme which says "Patriotism is a good explainer why should we live worse than others".

I asked him if he can elaborate on his complaints. He answered "Can't talk now, things have changed drastically, hopefully for the better".

I'm pretty sure the video was indeed filmed in Kalininets, Moscow region, which hosts 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division (big boards design, buildings coloring) 55.547195, 36.967826 +/- 80 m

This division struggled a heavy defeat in Izum during UA counter offensive. It's soldiers asked their commanders to let them quit fighting even before Russia retreated from the area.

My geolocation matches the public info: it's a parade ground of the unit 23626, the 1st tank regiment. Back in may @agents_media reported conscripts were sent to Ukraine from there and upon return they didn't get their combat payments. agents.media/obmanuli/

Barracks photo from his VK matches the photo of barracks of this unit posted earlier on VK. (By yet another newly mobilized Muscovite, 39 years old)

"It's our turn now to recall our youth", the man who also posts from there says. He even publishes a photo of his subpoena whish asked him to shop up On Sep. 29th. This enthusiast did it even earlier.

("Which asked him to show up", sorry for the typos)

Ukrainian TG channels publish a video with Russian POW, who says he's from the same unit, 23626 (t.me/Tsaplienko/167…). There's one more video with him. He says he was mobilized on Sep. 21st. Unfortunately, I was not yet able to confirm his identity/authenticity of the video.

More photos of mobilized men, taken at the same location in Kalininets, where the 2nd Guards Taman Motor Rifle Division is hosted. "We sleep on the floor for the 3rd day in a row. No training, nothing. We were told that we depart to Donetsk in 3 days" (yaplakal.com/forum2/topic25…)