1/ Russian soldiers who complained yesterday about their commander brutally beating their comrades, extorting them, and stealing from the dead, have reportedly been sent on a potentially suicidal combat mission – likely as retaliation for complaining. ⬇️
2/ The wife of Alexander Valerievich Shirinsky, a squad commander in the 506th Motorised Rifle Regiment, says that along with at least three other men "he was also brutally beaten on the night of August 24-25, tied to a tree for the whole night, his arms and legs are…
3/ …blue from the ropes, his face is covered in abrasions, he cannot walk, he also already had a wound – shrapnel in the chest, but Lt Col Voskoboev still sent him on a combat mission with shrapnel in the chest.
4/ "Now all those who suffered from his torture have been sent on a combat mission, in fact, they are the main witnesses of these crimes, there are many more victims. Battalion commander Voskoboev abuses alcohol, he is very cruel, I am very worried about my husband."
5/ According to the human rights organisation , Shirinsky said that he was beaten by four people seeking to "exert moral and physical pressure" on him. The beaten soldiers had previously not been allowed to wash, shave, or perform personal hygiene.Gulagu.net
6/ His wife says that Shirinsky is now in a very bad condition, not only from his previous shrapnel wound, but from a series of new injuries inflicted during the beating. "His arm did not move after the injury, and after all these violent actions, he cannot walk at all."
7/ "He managed to report that his arms and legs were swollen, his head and face were swollen, and cut. He repeatedly told me in conversation that his command abuses alcohol and treats its subordinates like expendable material.
8/ Today they were all sent on a combat mission and I am worried about him." /end
1/ Ukrainians conscripted into the Russian army are used "all for meat," denied leave, forced to rely on the black market for supplies and to buy vehicles with their own money, and are sent into "meat storms" where large numbers are killed, according to a Russian commentary. ⬇️
2/ The Russian 'Philologist in Ambush' Telegram channel, which is pro-war but often critical of the way it's being fought, has published a description from a source in the forces of the 'Luhansk People's Militia' – now part of the Russian Army – on the situation there:
3/ "Thank you for highlighting the issue of the wounded and the untreated. For the butchers, the 7th Luhansk brigade is generally giving the locals [i.e. men from the Luhansk region] a hard time, both commanders and soldiers.
1/ Four men who are accused of murdering 'Donbass Cowboy' Russell Bentley, by torturing him to death and then blowing up his body with a block of TNT, reportedly want to evade being tried for murder by volunteering to go back to fighting in Ukraine. ⬇️
3/ Three soldiers – Vitaly Vansyatsky, Vladislav Agaltsev, and Andrey Iordanov – are accused of the murder and of blowing the body up with a block of TNT inside a VAZ 2115 car, while a fourth, Vladimir Bazhin, is accused of having disposed of the remains on Vansyatsky's orders.
3/ Three soldiers – Vitaly Vansyatsky, Vladislav Agaltsev, and Andrey Iordanov – are accused of the murder and of blowing the body up with a block of TNT inside a VAZ 2115 car, while a fourth, Vladimir Bazhin, is accused of having disposed of the remains on Vansyatsky's orders.
1/ Despite saying earlier that there were no casualties in yesterday's attack on the Vladimir Putin Special Forces University in Chechnya, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov now says that Ukrainian POWs were killed there and are being held as human shields at every strategic site. ⬇️
2/ On his own Telegram channel, Kadyrov says:
"As I said earlier, there were no casualties on our side as a result of the attack. BUT! There are casualties among Ukrainian prisoners.
3/ "Up to 10 Ukrainian prisoners are being held at every strategic facility in the republic, including on the territory of the [Special Forces University]. Kyiv, trying to harm us, today killed its own soldiers.
1/ Camouflage nets made by volunteers for use on the front lines are reported to have appeared on construction sites across Russia, likely as a result of corrupt military personnel selling them to construction firms. There is said to be a shortage of nets on the front lines. ⬇️
2/ The 'Reporter Shturmovik' Telegram channel (Grigory Kubatyan) highlights a building in Magadan in Siberia: "It is currently being renovated, so the house is covered with a camouflage net. If you look closely, you can see that this net was made for military purposes."
3/ "Women all over the country weave these for free. They gather in schools, libraries, churches. And they weave, sparing no hands, sometimes young, but often old, with sore joints.
1/ This morning's Ukrainian drone attack on the Vladimir Putin Russian Special Forces University in Chechnya is reported to have set the facility's main building on fire, potentially causing serious damage. ⬇️
2/ The Russian outlet Agency. News reports that despite Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's claim that an "empty building" had been struck, in reality the target was the main building. As Agency reports:
3/ "Kadyrov said that a drone had attacked an "empty building" on the university grounds at 6:30 a.m. As a result, the roof caught fire. According to him, there were no casualties and the fire was extinguished.
1/ Google has been fined 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (2 undecillion) rubles (equivalent to $204,871,202,000,00,000,371,569,396,369,326,080, or $204.8 octillion) by a Russian court for blocking the YouTube channels of 17 Russian state media companies. ⬇️
3/ Many of the blocked channels testified in court:
- Zvezda
- Channel One
- VGTRK (TV channels Russia 1, Russia 24, etc.)
- Parliamentary Television
- Moscow Media
- TV Center
- NTV
- GPM Entertainment Television
- Public Television of Russia
- Channel 360
- TRK Petersburg
3/ Many of the blocked channels testified in court:
- Zvezda
- Channel One
- VGTRK (TV channels Russia 1, Russia 24, etc.)
- Parliamentary Television
- Moscow Media
- TV Center
- NTV
- GPM Entertainment Television
- Public Television of Russia
- Channel 360
- TRK Petersburg