1/ Officers are reportedly shooting at the feet of mobilised Russians to force them to sign new contracts 'volunteering' for service in assault units. According to relatives, their regiment is one of many to have recently been broken up and the men reassigned to other units. ⬇️
2/ The men, who are from the Vladimir region east of Moscow, are likely to be serving in the forests around Svatove. They were reportedly forced to flee from incomplete defensive positions under heavy Ukrainian shelling last November.
3/ According to relatives at that time, "the mobilised did not have special military equipment and military equipment, including reconnaissance equipment.
4/ "There were no experienced officers in the regiment – the company commanders, having determined their positions, left for the headquarters of the regiment and did not return to the personnel before the start of the artillery shelling."
5/ Now, relatives say, the men have been left in the forest without food or water, cut off completely from resupply. They are drinking from a spring and living in crude huts made from branches. Officers have visited them to force them at gunpoint to sign contracts as volunteers.
6/ According to the relatives, the men's regiment – the 346th (unit number 11048) – was disbanded and they were reassigned to the 752nd regiment. They were taken to an unknown destination somewhere in the 'LNR' before dumped in the forest with no explanation or fresh orders.
7/ The relatives say in a private WhatsApp channel that many other regiments have also been disbanded and that "the rotation of troops is occurring everywhere." It's not clear why, but one possibility is a reorganisation ahead of a Spring offensive.
8/ The men have told their relatives: "Representatives of various regiments, including the 752nd, came and forced them to sign contracts as volunteers for the assault troops; in some cases it came to shooting at their feet.
9/ "They were given until Friday to sign and then the outcome could be anything.
There are no official documents, which regiment they are assigned to, who their commander is.
There are no official documents, which regiment they are assigned to, who their commander is.
10/ "Every day people come to them in military uniform, without introducing themselves, without identifying themselves, it is not clear what position they are in, they talk out of order, they put psychological pressure on them to change their status from mobilised to a volunteer.
11/ "They threaten them with a tribunal and with being designated as '500s' [refuseniks]."
The relatives have written to the army and the Ministry of Defence for help, but have only been given vague reassurances.
Source:
🔹 vk.com/wall-185808385…
🔹 t.me/astrapress/200…
The relatives have written to the army and the Ministry of Defence for help, but have only been given vague reassurances.
Source:
🔹 vk.com/wall-185808385…
🔹 t.me/astrapress/200…
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