Thread by @kromark

🧵/ link in the last tweet. There’s a new video of Russian mobilized complaining they were just dropped in the field without tents and food. Together with @pustota we geolocated it and found some details about the case. archive.ph/qhSCj

Translation 1/2: "We’re mobilized people. We were brought there and dropped in the field. There’s nothing here, we’re building a fire. I’m a senior reserve lieutenant of the medical service. Nobody was waiting for us. They promise [some developments] the next morning".

Translation 2/2 "They didn’t give us a tent or even a stove. Our bus is gone. No one needs us. We didn’t receive dry rations, either. They didn’t pay us our enlistment bonus. We’re self-organizing now, electing superiors among ourselves".

The video was taken today at 56.8427, 62.4940. It’s the 473rd District Training Centre (Military Unit Number 31612) in Poroshino, Sverdlovskaya oblast. @GeoConfirmed voinskayachast.net/suhoputnie-voy…

Mobilized were brought there from one of the most depressive towns across the whole Russia (I’ve been there myself), Berezniki, Perm region. It’s 640 km (400 miles) from Poroshino. Berezniki town is being slowly destroyed by local potassium mine for last decades.

The place where those mobilized were dropped off the bus is known among the soldiers as "The valley of death", as mentioned on Wikimapia.

The man who filmed the video is well-known local doctor in Berezniki. He’s anesthesiologist-resuscitator, I wouldn’t be wondered if he was the only one in his small town. prodoctorov.ru/berezniki/vrac…

We contacted relatives of those mobilized through VKontakte. Here’s some quotes:
"There were 60 of them. Explain me: why the hell should our men pay themselves for the equipment?".

"I hate my fellow wives [who are proud their husbands being mobilized]. Stupid chickens. They dream about the prince on a white horse. I’d like to see how they themselves are freezing for half of the day".

On the good side, she says, is that they were promised 2 weeks of training – unlike poor guys from Tamanskaya division.

https://twitter.com/kromark/status/1574707928313270272

Local news from Perm region (it’s where these men came from) are on it already: they report that authors of the video were threatened with criminal prosecution, even before anyone started to solve their problem.
kommersant.ru/doc/5583494

I found several other photos of people who were mobilized to this unit. They’re being kept in auditorium – no wonder there was no space for newcomers.

Here are some more selfies of mobilized there. This training center also had to put tents in its premises for newly recruited.

As we’ve been told later on, those mobilized have been finally let into the premises of the unit and shown their barracks.

This situation again shows that Russia was not ready for Putin’s mobilization in terms of logistics. In Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, local authorities say MoD scrapped mobilization plans and they will annulate already issued subpoenas. rferl.link/W3zW

Here’s the full story in Russian (Google Translate for your language please): svoboda.org/a/32057722.html