Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ The Russian army is holding many as 300 mobilised Russian soldiers captive in the basement of the House of Culture (=cultural centre) of the village of Zaitseve in Luhansk oblast, giving them hardly any food, according to the independent Astra media collective. ⬇️

2/ The men are being held there for refusing to return to the front lines. According to the wife of one of them, "My husband says that there are already about 300 of them. New people are constantly brought in."

3/ "This is in a large basement in the House of Culture in Zaitseve. They are fed once a day: one dry ration [pack] for 5-6 people. [The officers] constantly make threats."

4/ Zaitseve is a tiny village in the far north of Luhansk oblast, just across the border from Belgorod oblast in Russia. The basement-prison there is the largest of the seven known to exist across the occupied regions of Ukraine (see the thread below).

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1590696393001168897

5/ It's likely that most if not all of the men are survivors of the battles currently going on around Svatove, which have caused many casualties among the mobilised men who have been thrown onto the front lines with little or no equipment, ammunition, food, water or training.

6/ Relatives of the men have travelled to Zaitsave to try to rescue them and return them home, but were blocked from entering the village at a military checkpoint.

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1591010350471995393

7/ In many cases, the men say that they are willing to fight if properly led, trained and equipped, but the Russian army is attempting to coerce them to return to the front line by using starvation, beatings and threats. /end

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t.me/astrapress/159…