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Oct 21 14 tweets 4 min read
1/ Russian mobilised soldiers from Krasnodar complain that they have been "thrown out like dogs" in the fields of Ukraine, with no information, no orders, no radio, no ammunition and no medicine, and live in holes dug out with their bare hands, as they have no shovels. ⬇️
2/ Rough transcript/translation (with thanks to @altryne):

Dear our, so to speak, the authorities of the Russian Federation, the so-called Ministry of Defence, we are mobilised from the Krasnodar Territory.
3/ For a month we were, like, being prepared for something, it is not clear what for, fuck. We were being transported back and forth, fuck. And now, it turns out, we are somewhere in the fields of Ukraine. We were just thrown out like dogs, here, really, in the fields.
4/ No shovel, nothing with us ... We live just in the field, fuck. No, no, they bring some food, literally two times a day. We burn fires, chop trees, fuck, dig, what God sent, fuck ... They gave us Kalash[nikovs] and bayonets, fuck. And guys, dig as you want, fuck.
5/ There is no information, no command. We sit, fuck, like [we're] on needles, because we do not know where [are] our own, where the strangers [enemy]. No radio, no cartridges, no shit. What is this, fuck? Our Ministry of Defence is so class.
6/ We are all sick, no medicine, nothing. There are no medicines, two people are already [so sick] that they need to be hospitalised. Here they were treated, how to say, fuck. With their own drugs, who has what, fuck.
7/ Okay, now, at night, [it's] up to 0 degrees, and in the afternoon at least warm, fuck, at least [it] warms up. You do not know what [projectiles] will fly from where, fuck, because there is no idea where we really are. Information is zero.
8/ Therefore, I would like to show our authorities, fuck, who promised to recruit people for the universities, for good medical care, shouted that we have, that a person is a little sick, fuck, he is sent to the hospital.
9/ Then he is not sent anywhere, he lies in the dugout, fuck, snarls blood, fuck. Do you think this is normal? There is nothing normal here. There is a proverb, yes, a full soldier, dressed soldier, he is ready to fight.
10/ So do you first, fuck, distribute people who should be to the universities ... [We are] just like a guerrilla detachment.
11/ We are taking scattered things. [Here is] what we dug out with our own strength. The uniform is bought exclusively by parents and relatives. Here three people live. You understand, right? Everyone is coughing. For 15 days already.
12/ This is what is happening here. This is how our guerrilla Krasnodar detachment lives. Somewhere in the fields of Ukraine. Where are our people, where are strangers? /end
(Yes, as people have noted, they swear a lot.)

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Oct 23
1/ More unhappy mobilised Russian soldiers deployed to Ukraine have spoken out about a chaotic mobilisation that has left them on a front line in eastern Ukraine with no training, no usable weapons, no food, no water, no orders and commanders they feel are lying to them. ⬇️ Image
2/ This is a long video, nearly 27 minutes, so I won't upload it here – it can be viewed with automatic subtitles on YouTube (link below). But I'll post a summary and some extracts below.
3/ The mobiks say they are men of the 15th Motorised Rifle Regiment of the Taman Division (2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division), which is based in the Moscow region. They were mobilised on 28 September. By 8 October, when the video was made, they were near Lyman in eastern Ukraine. Image
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Oct 21
1/ A POW, questioned by his Ukrainian captors, says that he's a construction worker from Uzbekistan. He was sent from Moscow to fight in the Russian army because he had no papers. Presumably he got caught by the police.
2/ This exactly parallels the emerging story of the two Tajik men who reportedly carried out the mass shooting at the Soloti training range on 15 October (see below).
3/ One of them, Ehson Aminzoda, was working in a Moscow restaurant before apparently being detained by police on 10 October and forcibly mobilised the following day. It's likely that something similar happened to the other reported shooter, Mehrob Rakhmonov.
Read 5 tweets
Oct 21
1/ Mobilised Russian reservists from Kazan (likely ethnic Tatars) are committing suicide in toilets, running away from their mobilisation camp, and being given psychological evaluations to assess their loyalty, according to journalist Farida Kurbangaleeva. Translation follows. ⬇️ Image
2/ "And now news about the mobilised from near Kazan (who were taken to the circus). There are already six reservists who hanged themselves. According to a source, the last of them hanged himself the day before, right in his tent.
3/ That is why the police and prosecutor's office swarmed into the camp today. All the mobilised men were made to undergo psychological tests. Moreover, today they were not given assault rifles – this is probably linked to the shooting in the Belgorod region.
Read 8 tweets
Oct 21
1/ The Russian Cheka-OGPU Telegram channel has suggested that *both* the Tajiks who carried out a mass shooting at the Soloti training range on 15 October were forcibly recruited in Moscow. I highlighted yesterday the story of one of them, Ehson Aminzoda.
2/ The other shooter has been named by the Russian media as a man named Mehrob Rakhmonov, aged 23. Both men are claimed to be have been "volunteers" who enlisted on 11 October. In contrast to Aminzoda, no photo or verified biographical information about him has emerged.
3/ Aminzoda was working at a Moscow chain restaurant called Chaihona, according to his brother, and was in poor health with kidney problems and poor eyesight. This should ordinarily have ruled him out of military service, but Russian mobilisers have been ignoring health issues. Image
Read 16 tweets
Oct 20
@wartranslated 1/ Transcript:

R1: How many people do you have?

R2: So, the 1st and 3rd companies have been fucked. It's us left, four tanks in the second company, with some infantry – maybe around 100 people remaining. Don't know if the help will come.

R1: Are you going to attack?
@wartranslated 2/ R2: Doubt it. No command here. Like, you're driving forward, and you don't even know if someone's there, will you run over an infantryman sitting in a trench or not. I'm going on a tank, I'm scared that my own [side] will fuck me up with an ATGM.
@wartranslated 3/ Anyway, it's fucked up here, it's a madhouse.

R1: Why the fuck did you ever go there?

R2: I don't even know. The fucking birds [drones] are buzzing, chasing the vehicles. They don't even care about infantry anymore.
Read 12 tweets
Oct 20
1/ Were the Tajiks who carried out a mass shooting at a Russian training ground on 15 October forcibly mobilised against their will? Reports from Russian and Tajik-language media suggest this may indeed have been the case, though much still remains uncertain. 🧵 follows.
2/ Vlasti reports that male citizens of Tajikistan who are resident in Russia have been disappearing abruptly, causing their relatives to fear that they had been forcibly mobilised. One of the shooters, 24-year-old Ehson Aminzoda (pic above), may have been among them.
3/ Aminzoda is reported to be the son of a former high-ranking Tajik government official. He had been working in a restaurant in Moscow for several months and was saving money for a wedding, as he was engaged to a woman in Tajikistan. He did not have Russian citizenship.
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