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1/ More evidence has emerged of Russian soldiers systematically being robbed and mistreated by the army's notoriously corrupt military police. Accounts tell of MPs stealing from, fining, jailing, assaulting and even enslaving soldiers, sometimes with apparent racist intent. ⬇️ 
2/ An account from a mobilised soldier in the second line of the Russian defences tells of how the military police are targeting men for trivial or invented offences. The anonymous account is published on the 'Alex Carrier' Telegram channel. His informant writes:
3/ "If you don't know, military police are the guys who in peacetime make sure that soldiers don't get too rowdy outside the unit, and in special operations maintain order in liberated territories.
4/ "Ideally, they should curb drunkenness, looting, keep civilians away from soldiers and vice versa. Ideally, they should help the FSB to catch deserters and [Ukrainian] reconnaisance and saboteur units.
5/ "And now the meat of the matter: instead of all of the above, these nice people in nice hats and clean uniforms are engaged in pure sabotage.
6/ "At first it was harmless rules, like that a soldier should be permanently sober, clean-shaven, cheerful and friendly, live strictly in a dugout, dress strictly in the regulation camouflage.
7/ Then for violation of these commandments people began to be stupidly seized and taken away to the "monkey house" [guardhouse], but in fact, to carry out forced labour for construction of various objects for the military police themselves.
8/ The MPs found a free endless labour force for themselves.
9/ As a bonus, they started to shake down tourists [soldiers sent to Ukraine] at the entrance and exit [to the military operations area], squeezing out non-regulation (i.e. almost any) equipment and electronics, including thermal [sights] and drones.
10/ "And just forcing them to buy regulation uniform right there on the cordon, because it's forbidden to leave in these hills and mosses [non-regulation clothing] of yours, fuck you and not a holiday, fellow servicemen.
11/ "Fuck it, we can live with a lot, but now things are already taking quite absurd turns. Now you won't be allowed out of the special military operation zone:
12/ "a) if you put on ankle boots with multicam, and not with digital [camouflage], or you put on sneakers with digital, and not with multicam
b) if you are without body armour.
b) if you are without body armour.
13/ "Where vacationers put their body armour then is their own business. Well, just think, an extra 15 kg of luggage, fuck you.
14/ "And yes, an attempt to walk to a well for water or even for your immediate task (without a tunic, for example, or with a stubble a millimetre longer than that of an MP) still promises a trip to the "monkey house", where you can sit for a day, or three, or five.
15/ In addition to the fact that such bullshit interferes with work, it also makes you feel bad.
16/ You constantly wonder why the fuck you are needed here, if you are fought with more actively than with the Khokhls [Ukrainians], and your appearance is more important to the bosses than whether the tasks are fulfilled or not.
17/ "I'm sorry, but we'd rather shave and dress nicely at home in front of our wives and colleagues at work. We were called to fight in a war.
18/ "Or is that the same... ahem... unreliable information as promises to replace us with contract soldiers, of whom, according to the top officials, there is no shortage?
19/ "And if the Ministry of Defence wants a pretty picture for its reports, let it ask the Khokhls to wait until we've put on the make-up."
20/ The anonymous account corroborates Grey Zone's earlier description of misconduct by the military police, who have acquired a reputation for corruption. One incident of extortion was recently recorded on video.
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1706289537851224368
21/ Another incident is recounted in this recent video by an ethnic Kabardian from the North Caucasus. He says that he and two companions were badly beaten by military police in the town of Tokmak before some of his colleagues intervened.
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1706628431054623147
22/ The man, Arsen Temiraev, says that he was racially taunted for being a non-ethnic Russian: "You fucking idiot. Russia is for Russians." "It was a shame," he comments. "When such things happen, you begin to doubt everything." /end
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