Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Mobilised Russians who joined the 'Wolves' mercenary group say they are being threatened with execution if they don't go to the front line, despite being untrained. They have not been rotated for months due to manpower shortages caused by huge casualties. ⬇️

2/ In April 2023, some mobiks were reportedly ordered at gunpoint to sign contracts transferring them from the Russian Army's 352nd Motorised Rifle Regiment to the Wolves private military company. Others seem to have been recruited directly from training.

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1648231091952660481

3/ Since then, ASTRA reports, the men have been sitting in positions in Ukraine for six months without a break, due to a lack of manpower to rotate them. The Wolves are known to have been positioned around Bakhmut.

https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1691872274272436592

4/ According to the wife of one of the men:

"My husband was mobilised in September 2022. He was sent to Kursk to the training ground, for some time he was with PMC Wagner, until in April 2023 PMC Wolves came to the training ground.

5/ "They began to lure people to them: "You will come to us, we will train you, dress you, you will have a rotation. Two weeks in the position, two weeks on holiday."

6/ Some of the guys agreed, as there was no real choice: either go to the PMC Wolves, or stay with Wagner, who were in the thick of it. As a result, those who went to Wolves are sitting for the sixth month.

7/ "No one changes their positions, once a month they allow someone to go out to buy cigarettes and that's it.

Now the leadership of the Wolves is changing, and there are not enough people on the front line.

8/ "The command (call signs: "Kedr", "Baghdad", "Kosta" and "Tsin") said that all those mobilised would be stormtroopers and would soon go to the front line. Naturally, the guys raised a fuss. Without training, it is impossible, it will clearly mean death.

9/ "The [army] unit said that "we have no influence on the Wolves": On 1 July, the Wolves signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defence. They were also told: "You will all go there. Today, tomorrow, it's just a matter of time."

10/ "My husband has already travelled to the combat zone. And everyone who was there came back wounded and concussed. Nobody wants to go there anymore. However, if they refuse, they will be hanged for desertion, for example."

11/ She says that in July a group of wives went to the unit. The deputy regiment commander told them: "Do you know how many 200s [killed] we have at the front? We don't have people, do you understand?"

12/ "We have no one to replace everyone. Girls, what rotation?" According to the wife, the discussion was recorded and he was fired after it became public.

The men are also not being paid what they are owed, according to their relatives.

13/ The relatives have written appeals to the Russian military authorities, but as usual they have received no useful replies. /end

Source:
t.me/astrapress/365…