1/ Another group of mobilised Russian soldiers has reportedly been starved of food and water and threatened with prosecution, torture and death by their commanders to force them to go back to the front line, according to independent Russian media outlet Agency News. Thread ⬇️
2/ This appears to be a continuation of a story covered earlier by TV Rain (see thread below). The men are survivors of the 6th and 7th companies of the 423rd Guards Yampolsky Motor Rifle Regiment, which suffered heavy casualties under Ukrainian fire.
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1587742973760098307
3/ Agency News reports:
"Nine out of 27 mobilized people who refused to fight near Svatove (Luhansk region) returned to the front line, the wives of three men told the Agency. This was preceded by several days of threats.
"Nine out of 27 mobilized people who refused to fight near Svatove (Luhansk region) returned to the front line, the wives of three men told the Agency. This was preceded by several days of threats.
4/ The men were threatened with a court-martial, they were taken to the forest and hinted that they would be killed, and they were not given food and water.
5/ Details. According to one of the Agency's interlocutors, whose husband decided to return to the front with a group of nine men in Svatove.
▪️ The remaining 18 people signed reports refusing to participate in hostilities without proper training, three women said.
▪️ The remaining 18 people signed reports refusing to participate in hostilities without proper training, three women said.
6/ ▪️ The refuseniks, according to the Agency's interlocutors, were picked up by two vehicles on Saturday. The mobilised men were loaded into Ural trucks and taken to the village of Zaitseve on Luhansk People's Republic territory. 
7/ The women speculate that their husbands may have been placed in a pre-trial detention facility. "They took away their weapons and bulletproof vests, there was no contact with them.
8/ They were told that no one would return them to Russia," one of the women described the situation. According to other women, the men were also threatened that "they would sit in a basement and be beaten there until they agreed to go to the front line."
9/ After this, contact with the husbands was lost.
▪️ This company, mobilized from the Moscow region in October, almost without preparation, was thrown into battle near Svatove. After lying for 12 hours under mortar shelling, the men returned to Svatove.
▪️ This company, mobilized from the Moscow region in October, almost without preparation, was thrown into battle near Svatove. After lying for 12 hours under mortar shelling, the men returned to Svatove.
10/ They refused to fight until they were trained, equipped and given an experienced commander.
▪️ The men were not allowed into their unit's base, they were not given any water or food.
▪️ The men were not allowed into their unit's base, they were not given any water or food.
11/ Since 27 October, [commanders] have been trying to force them to return to the front line with threats.
12/ Context. This is not the only case when those mobilized by threats and torture are forced to return to the front lines. According to the ASTRA telegram channel, a group of male objectors found themselves in the basement of a former colony in Perevalsk, Luhansk region.
13/ On Saturday it became known that these soldiers were transferred to another basement. [see thread below]
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1588932239043461123
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