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1/ An incident last week in which a military policeman was filmed extorting Russian soldiers in a UAZ-452 van was reportedly just the tip of the iceberg. Soldiers are complaining that they are systematically being robbed in occupied southern Ukraine. ⬇️
2/ Commenting on the video, the Wagner-affiliated Grey Zone blog says that such incidents happen "several times a week" in the occupied Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. Military police are reportedly stealing aid supplies, quadcopters and cars for their own use or to resell.
3/ "They take away cars for everything. Seat belt. Window tinting. No driver's licence. What other documents do special forces reconnaissance soldiers need with them? Maybe a military ID and a reference from the commander?
4/ "They may even ask for documents for weapons, like they're hunters. I'm not fucking kidding. At the same time, the “military prostitutes” themselves are standing in multicam, but how long ago did multicam become our regulation camouflage?
5/ "In the most problematic region, the Kherson region, cars are slowed down even on the nominal line of contact, which runs along the Dniepro River.
6/ "Since the arrivals [incoming shells] on this section are less than near Robotine, where "red caps" [won't] piss around, these striped trousers hang out around Kherson, where they can fuck with a quadcopter in a car, since their launch is prohibited.
7/ "Do you understand? A soldier rushes and takes the quadrocopter to the mission to continue reconnaissance, since it is fucked up/discharged, and they slow him down and take the quadcopter and take it away along with the car.
8/ "After that, half of the command personnel have to fuck around for a few hours to recover the fighter or fighters.
9/ "And if the car was somehow "wrongly registered" according to these fuckers, the car can simply be confiscated, and then you see them driving it themselves or selling it to Chechens for next to nothing.
10/ "Again, complaints from the Kherson region in particular have been coming in for a long time and constantly. Some Russian fighters are already so nervous that if I were the "red caps" I would become nervous myself, lest some checkpoint accidentally wake up at night." /end

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1/ Ukrainian and Russian sources have confirmed that Wagner fighters have returned to fighting in Ukraine, although in small numbers and apparently in disjointed groups. This may reflect individual former Wagnerites or small units joining the Russian MOD's forces. ⬇️ Image
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1/ The Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya) is reported to have come under suspicion as a possible accomplice of Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny, following some strange occurrences involving the Wagner Group's weapons. ⬇️ Image
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that although nobody has been charged over the mutiny, "the FSB continues to actively search for high officials who may have been involved in the June "march of justice", organised by the head of PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin."
3/ "At the same time, the focus of attention of investigators is now concentrated on the Rosgvardia, although initially employees of this service as potential traitors were not considered."
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Sep 22
1/ Mobilised Russians fighting in Ukraine are finding that they're not being allowed to go on leave, even after a year of active service, despite the promises of Vladimir Putin. Relatives are complaining with little success, while the men face deteriorating health. ⬇️ Image
2/ In his original 21 September 2022 announcement of mobilisation, Putin stated that the mobilised would get two months' leave every six months. Soldiers have to petition their commanders for leave, but are commonly finding they're not being given permission.
3/ Radio Free Europe reports that much of the blame lies with individual commanders, according to posts from relatives on social media. "Some people get leave, and some don't, even if you write 100 reports [requesting leave]," Anna Averkina from St. Petersburg writes on VK.
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1/ Wounded Russian soldiers and their relatives say they are being sent back into battle without being treated, and in some cases are not paid injury compensation or even their regular salaries. It's been blamed on a shortage of frontline manpower. Some are choosing to flee. ⬇️ Image
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1/ A new analysis has found that mobilised Russians who have been sent to Ukraine have only survived, on average, for 4.5 months before being killed. One in five of the mobilised has not survived longer than eight weeks. ⬇️ Image
2/ A joint investigation by Important Stories and the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) has analysed the reported deaths of thousands of mobilised Russians. They found that almost every region of Russia has sustained fatalities, with the youngest just 19 and the oldest aged 62.
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3/ The Moscow-based news website MSK1 reports that there has been a record surge in adverts from employers to fill these roles. Before the war in Ukraine, the number of such vacancies on job search websites was only 10-16 per month.
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