1/ Corrupt Russian HQ troops are reported to be selling drones and other equipment donated by volunteers at a market in Donetsk city. Drone operators often have to buy drones with their own money, and fear being sent into suicidal assaults as punishment if they complain. ⬇️ 
2/ The Russian Telegram channel 'Interbrigade 2022' says that Mavic drones and other items of military equipment are being sold openly at the Mayak market in Donetsk city. Representatives of the 'DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs' are said to exact 'tributes' from sellers there.
3/ The drones appear to be donated ones being resold for corrupt personal gain. DPR drone operators complain that "birds handed over by volunteers centrally through the headquarters of regiments and brigades disappear somewhere, and are given out clearly less than they receive."
4/ One operator says: "They gathered us, Valya arrived, handed over the bird, and left. Then the bird was taken from us and we never saw it again."
5/ At the same time, the channel says, DPR commanders are "extremely nervous when fighters ask the public for Mavics, especially publicly. Up to sending drone operators on assaults. And the fighters bear financial responsibility for the volunteer birds.
6/ "Therefore, the situation when drone operators buy Mavics for work with their salaries is standard."
Interbrigade 2022 says that it is not disclosing the names or units of the drone operators who have complained, due to the likelihood of a lethal punishment.
Interbrigade 2022 says that it is not disclosing the names or units of the drone operators who have complained, due to the likelihood of a lethal punishment.
7/ The channel writes: "We do not believe that the commanders who built corruption schemes in the units of the 1st Corps of the DPR, and now the 51st Combined Arms Army of the Russian Armed Forces, will be held accountable.
8/ There is simply no one to sort this out, because even the supervisors of the relevant [investigative] departments come to Donetsk for a period of [only] three months, during which it is impossible to get to grips with the local specifics or to move forward anything seriously."
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