Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Relatives of mobilised Russians say that their men are being "forced to defend themselves not only from the enemy, but also from their own side who should be helping, not killing them." They say that medical and logistical troops are being sent to fight on the front line. ⬇️

2/ The relatives say in a pair of videos that their men are from Barnaul and Slavgorod in the Altai Krai region, serving in the 1307th and 1442nd Motorised Rifle Regiments and the 89nd Tank Regiment. They appeal to Vladimir Putin to help their men and punish their commanders.

3/ It's likely that the men are in the area around Berkhivka and Klishchiivka near Bakhmut, where previous mobik videos from the same units have spoken of heavy casualties, a lack of supplies, no artillery support, and no evacuation of the wounded.

https://twitter.com/KrzysztofJano15/status/1666687514327883777

4/ The latest videos echo these complaints, indicating that the Russian army has been unable to resolve these problems through the entire summer. The men's relatives say that their men have been in heavy frontline fighting since April 2023 without a break.

5/ "There is no rotation. Due to this the fighters are experiencing moral, psychological, physical exhaustion. There is no time to recover lost strength. They have no opportunity for rest."

6/ They also complain about the behaviour of the regiment's commander, a man with the call sign 'Grom' ('Thunder'). He "sends our men again and again into battle."

7/ "At the risk of their lives he forces them to return to their [former] positions at any cost, which are already occupied by the enemy, where there is no possibility to gain a foothold and shelter from shelling without proper support."

8/ The men of the 1442nd regiment were reported in July to have refused to fight at Klishchiivka, south of Bakhmut, after suffering heavy losses under Ukrainian fire while being sent into combat without ammunition, according to their relatives in an earlier video.

9/ According to the relatives in the latest video, the men's commanders "beat our men and still send them into battle."

10/ Medical care and logistical support appears to be precarious. The relatives say that "due to a shortage of military personnel due to numerous wounded and killed from artillery, companies and logistics companies are transferred to infantry and sent into battle."

11/ They say that "soldiers with contusions and shrapnel wounds are being ordered back to their positions, [on the grounds] that there are no places in hospitals. They don't give any medication."

12/ Echoing the earlier complaints of the mobiks from the 1307th Regiment, the relatives say that the men are being shelled by both sides. "Our men are forced to defend themselves not only from the enemy, but also from their own men who should be helping, not killing them."

13/ The relatives also appeal for help in finding the missing, saying that they are getting no help from the military. Instead, they say, they are being forced to look by themselves in hospitals, clinics, and morgues, and review photographs and videos of dead soldiers.

14/ Finally, they complain about their men being denied leave, which they say is "absolutely unfair and violative of the rights of citizens to work and proper rest, guaranteed by the basic law of the country, by the Constitution of the Russian Federation."

15/ "What rights do mobilized people have regarding the duration of their stay in the air defense zone?", they ask. They insist that the Russian government follow its earlier decrees on the mobiks' length of service in the war zone.

16/ They will doubtless be disappointed by the announcement two days ago that all of the mobilised are now under what amounts to an indefinite stop-loss order and will not return home until the end of the war. /end

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1702699124431163501

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