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1/ With the onset of winter in Ukraine, ill-equipped mobilised Russians are appealing to the governors of their home regions for assistance in dealing with the cold and a plague of mice. In response, relatives and governors are sending them coal, clothes and badger fat. ⬇️ 
2/ Russian soldiers are turning to the social media pages of many Russian regional governors after the Russian army has failed once again to supply its troops with warm clothes and fuel for the winter.
3/ Mobilised men from Samara write that they need gloves, warm socks, thermal underwear, and heaters. "There are only 13 of us left, we are sitting in the trenches, freezing," one writes.
4/ Others from Primorye complain that they have no fuel for the generators they use on the front line and have to buy it from local people at their own expense. One man writes that he bought gasoline from local firefighters (presumably pilfered from official supplies).
5/ "My husband says that they use their savings to buy gasoline for generators and take it to the guys on the front line so that they have light there," says one wife.
6/ Due to unharvested crops in the war zone, mice are everywhere in the trenches. A relative says that her brother cannot sleep because they "get into his ears, nose and mouth. They chew on everything they have." Cats are of little use in combating them.
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7/ Relatives have suggested various folk remedies. One advises half-filling a bucket with water to tempt the mice to climb in and drown. Others recommend burning pieces of felt, or even burning dead rodents, to drive them away with the smell.
8/ Some governors have responded with assistance. Sergey Nosov, the governor of the Magadan region, has had coal sent to the front line to supply the soldiers' stoves, and promises they will get regular deliveries.
9/ Other less conventional ways of dealing with winter temperatures have been suggested. One relative asks if badger fat can be sent to the front line, as smearing it on the body is supposed to be a good way of keeping out the cold.
10/ However, relatives complain that the 'humanitarian aid' parcels they send are not receiving the front line, almost certainly due to theft by those in the supply chain. This has been a common complaint on the Russian side throughout the war in Ukraine.
11/ One relative writes that they collected clothes and passed them to a commander via reliable volunteers. "The volunteers returned and said that they had handed everything over to the company commander. A week passed... no one handed anything over to anyone". /end
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