1/ The #Blyatskrieg continues: newly mobilised Russian troops have spent two days waiting outside the gates of a mobilisation base in Maikop because someone screwed up their paperwork. Transcript follows (h/t @wartranslated):
2/ "14 October, blyat, of 2022. This is how spending their time for two days now are the mobilised from Anapa and Krasnodar Krai in general. Basically, they screwed up the paperwork so much that not one unit is accepting us.
3/ I'll talk about Anapa specifically, which representative sent us to the distribution point in Krasnodar. They didn't put any necessary stamps that would lead us to be sent to the unit in Sevastopol. So we were brought to Maikop.
4/ Thankfully, one colonel allowed us to [enter] the unit at 10pm. Just so we wouldn't freeze outside. And in the morning, those not in the lists, and without stamps, were all kicked outside the territory of the unit. Therefore there will be no breakfast, no lunch, no dinner.
5/ So yeah, have a look, comrade mayor of Anapa city, how the people were left to the mercy of fate. And these are the people going to defend, blyat, the Russian Federation, defend you." /end
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1/ The Russian Baza Telegram channel has identified two of the alleged shooters from Saturday's mass shooting at Soloti, along with a list of 11 people said to have been killed. The details are, however, inconsistent with what's been reported independently. Translation ⬇️
2/ The nationals of Tajikistan who opened fire at a shooting range in the Belgorod region have been identified. They were 23-year-old Rakhmonov Mehrob and 24-year-old Eskhon Aminzod (pictured). They enlisted as volunteers and arrived at the firing range on 11 October.
3/ Four days later, on the morning of 15 October, they opened fire with submachine guns on other participants in the firing range. Retaliatory fire destroyed the attackers.
1/ A 57-year-old baker with no military experience has been recruited by the Russian military to work as an army doctor, according to the "Watch out for the news" (ON) Telegram channel. Translation follows. ⬇️
2/ ON reports: "A 57-year-old father of three children, who works as a baker, is being mobilised as a doctor in the Sverdlovsk Region.
Sergey Karelin, a resident of Verkhnyaya Sinyachih, was served a summons on 13 September.
3/ According to his niece, the military enlistment office was interested in the education of a hygienist-epidemiologist. The man was told that all doctors have the right to mobilize before the age of 60.
1/ The independent Russian media outlet ASTRA has published an interview with a claimed eyewitness of the mass shooting yesterday at a Russian army training facility. He says that the shooting arose from a dispute between Muslim and Christian soldiers. Translation below. ⬇️
2/ "ASTRA journalists were able to speak to a serviceman who claims to have been wounded during a shooting at the Soloti training range in the Belgorod region and saw the incident with his own eyes. The soldier is currently in hospital in the town of Valuyki.
3/ ASTRA is not publishing the soldier's name, for the sake of his safety.
IMPORTANT: At the time of publication, we were unable to independently confirm the identity of either the narrator himself or the identities of others who appear in the story.
R: So, the boys called your damn committee. They said, we're not in Ukraine, can you believe this? We're 'on exercises'.
W: Damn, yes, we know. But we wrote to all departments, no one cares!
@wartranslated 2/ R: They didn't send you the corpses either, and unlikely to send in the nearest future.
W: Didn't send what?
R: The dead. And there's loads of them, both from Lebedyansky [district] and from Lipetsk [oblast].
W: Damn. Igoryok phoned, he said you have nothing to eat.
@wartranslated 3/ R: There isn't, I agree, there's no food at all. Those who have no money eat the fucking sprouted grain from fields. And they brought us convicts from prisons...
W: And?
R: They were taken somewhere far in front. And we're sat here like barrier troops.
1/ Why did two Tajiks apparently shoot at least 27 newly mobilised Russian troops at the Soloti training centre in Belgorod region, causing at least 11 deaths? Much is still unclear about the incident, but I'll make some testable predictions.
2/ I predict that in the next few days we'll learn:
🔺 The Tajiks were recruited within the last 2 weeks (possibly sooner)
🔺 They were mobilised from a big city like Moscow or St Petersburg
🔺 They were previously in low-income manual jobs
🔺 They were detained from a hostel
3/ Here's why I think this may be the case.
The Russian authorities have been increasingly indiscriminate in recruiting men in the big cities, including Moscow and St Petersburg. I posted only a few days ago that hostels were being raided.
1/ The Russian Baza Telegram channel reports another example of how mobilisation is affecting Russia's economy: it's ruining the market for Moscow's established strippers, while the partners of mobilised men are taking up stripping to make ends meet. Translation follows:
2/ "Against the backdrop of mobilisation, attendance at strip clubs in the capital has plummeted significantly. Men have become much less likely to go there.
3/ After the mobilisation was announced, Moscow's strip clubs saw a severe drop in customers, and because of this, they have already started to see a noticeable drop in revenues, representatives of several venues in the capital told Baza.