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Oct 27 6 tweets 2 min read
1/ Mobilised men of the Russian 55th Motorized Rifle Brigade deployed near Lyman in Ukraine have little water, no food, fake training, only small arms, a tank with no fuel and are taking heavy casualties. Their relatives complain that they are being treated like pigs. ⬇️
2/ The men's relatives, from Serov in Sverdlovsk region, have recorded a video appeal about their plight. They say that the men have no food and are being given only 1.5 litres of water to last two days, for two people.
3/ One of the soldiers tells his partner in a recorded phone conversation that they took a beating three times from the Ukrainians but he hadn't even fired a single shot. Some men were blown up by a mine. They were given only fake training for TV cameras.
4/ The men have a tank they can't drive because it has no fuel, and the relatives say that officers took away the men's personal equipment and confiscate humanitarian aid sent by the relatives.
5/ The men are being given raw potatoes to eat, which they're not allowed to cook because making fires is forbidden. The dead are not being collected but are being buried by the men themselves, but being listed as 'missing' by the army. /end

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1/ Was corruption implicated in Russia's failure to detect the truck that exploded on the Kerch Bridge to Crimea on 8 October? Reports in the Russian media – and the actions of the Russian government – suggest that all was not well in the bridge's management. Thread ⬇️ Image
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1/ While some Russian milbloggers are still claiming improbably that everything is fine with the training of newly mobilised men, others are increasingly acknowledging that the army is providing little or no official training. Bloggers are organising to fill the gap. Thread ⬇️ ImageImage
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1/ The Russian Rybar Telegram channel has posted an analysis (from a Russian perspective) of the recent missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian electrical facilities. It highlights how the attacks have systematically targeted key 330 kV substations. Translation ⬇️ Image
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▪️ Target #1 - cutting off the Rovno NPP [Rivne nuclear power plant} from the 330kV power grid
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1/ In a somewhat macabre ritual, the Russian army has brought in a priest to baptise (living) soldiers using body bags as baptismal fonts, according to Russian local TV channel Telekanal UTV. Translation follows. ⬇️
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3/ A basin was needed for the ritual, but it was not available at the unit. Instead, the archpriest decided to use a plastic bag for "cargo 200". He even saw a certain symbolism of death and life in this.
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Today is St Crispin's Day – an occasion commemorated by Shakespeare with one of the greatest martial speeches ever written in the English language.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day’ ...
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1/ Two more videos of unhappy mobilised Russian soldiers in the field in Ukraine (this is becoming quite a genre now) highlight issues that have been seen several times before: they're being deployed without ammunition, food, water, clear orders or even tents to sleep in. ⬇️
2/ Men of the 423rd Guards Yampolsky Motor Rifle Regiment, who appear to have been deployed to eastern Ukraine (possibly somewhere around Lyman, judging from the terrain), complain:
3/ "We are standing on the front line, we have no ammo, no grenades, no food, no water... Here is the front line, we were sent here without training, without everything."
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