Thread: few quick takes from our latest investigation on Russian military buildup near Ukraine. We chatted with several wifes/mothers/soldiers on the trains – but didn't pretend to change our identity. Even after learning we are journalists, some people continued to chat.
This girl is saying her husband, who serves in air assault battalion (155th Detached Brigade Naval Infantry) says it's "not an exercises, they're heading to Ukraine". 
This woman reveals it took 11 days for her husband to make it from Borzya (Transbaikal region) to Brest, Belarus.
Spetsnaz is going too (14th Brigade of Special Forces, former GRU):
This guy from 38th motorized rifle brigade is travelling westwards himself now. Says half of the vehicles don't start, but good thing is they were given AK-12 instead of old type AK-72s:
Military police, which is necessary not only for large-scale exercises, but for holding the populated areas, is coming too.
Rus-BY exercises are scheduled to last for 10 days, but people say in TikTok their relatives are being sent for 3-9 months.
Read more here: svoboda.org/a/na-ukrainu-e…
.@CITeam_ru version of this investigation is worth reading too, of course – for many more findings, photos, videos and TikTok comments which we didn't include: citeam.org/russian-soldie… Was happy to work on this with @RuslanLeviev and other CIT guys.
Here's a summary of this story in English, thanx to @mjluxmoore and @sgutterman rferl.org/a/russia-ukrai…
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