Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Members of a Russian Storm Z penal unit who had previously refused to fight have reportedly been rounded up at gunpoint, their mobile phones shot to prevent them communicating with relatives, and the men taken away to the front line. A few are said to have managed to hide. ⬇️

2/ The men – originally a group of 43 – first appeared in a video of 28 June 2023 refusing to follow "terrible orders" after losing around 110 out of 150 men on the front line. They say they had no ammunition, food or water while they were there.

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1674370881332686851

3/ They subsequently posted a video around 9 July saying that they had been disarmed and dumped in abandoned houses in the occupied village of Rozivka, behind the front lines. Their relatives said they were "waiting to be slaughtered."

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1678115632930324487

4/ According to Tatyana, the wife of one of the men, they were forcibly taken away from Rozivka on 15 July. She says they were taken to the frontline village of Pryiutne in the Zaporizhzhya region. Their phones were taken away and shot, before the men were loaded onto a truck.

5/ "Of the 43 people in Rozivka, there are 12 people left," she says. "Some managed to hide, and others simply did not know that [the army] had come for them, because they all lived in different houses.

6/ "There is no communication at all, because their phones were shot on the spot where they were taken from."

7/ The men's current whereabouts and status are unknown; they are said to be serving under a new commander, "a "tough man" with the call sign "Vostok", and he is unlikely to allow them to call their relatives."

8/ Tatyana herself tried to join the army to get back to her husband, but was refused. She fears for their safety, saying that "all their phones have been shot, our boys will be reset [killed] soon."

9/ She says she was "warned that as soon as I started to find out anything about my husband, they would not let me near him. What's the point of going then? We don't know anymore, we are starting to go crazy."

Source:
t.me/astrapress/333…