1/ Russian milbloggers say that the army's ban on using personal vehicles at the front threatens "riots or the collapse of the front", while taxi drivers – on whom wounded Russian soldiers now depend for evacuation – are charging extortionate fares. ⬇️
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1867267353471226175
2/ The 'DPR Infantry' Telegram channel publishes a despairing Telegram exchange with a soldier using the callsign 'Hispanic', about the impact of the vehicle ban:
– Fuck. We can no longer supply ammunition to our stormtroopers.
– This has happened everywhere now. Fuck.
– Fuck. We can no longer supply ammunition to our stormtroopers.
– This has happened everywhere now. Fuck.
3/ – And it’s unclear what to do
– A civilian car with a slightly wounded man was turned away at the checkpoint, and he had to take a taxi to the hospital.
– Write reports on each case
– A civilian car with a slightly wounded man was turned away at the checkpoint, and he had to take a taxi to the hospital.
– Write reports on each case
4/ Another Telegram exchange is published by milblogger Yuriy Yevich. A writer comments that "from what I take in after the ban, it is undermining the readiness by the lack of ability to timely perform elementary tasks, from which the combat readiness of the division consists."
5/ An unidentified respondent replies: "Yesterday, this happened in Horlivka. The fighters were unable to deliver the equipment and birds [drones] after repairs. Since there was no car with black numbers [a military licence plate], it will be only today.
6/ "Taxi rides have already taken everything. 5-7 thousand ($48-67) for one ride. But their own [personally owned] transport is idle. And someone has already given it to relatives and representatives of the volunteers from whom the cars were driven."
7/ The latter presumably refers to the widely-voiced complaint among Russian soldiers that if they register their personally-owned vehicles with the army, they are stolen by corrupt commanders who give them away or openly sell them for their personal profit.
8/ Since the vast majority of vehicles at the front are personally owned, due to a severe shortage of official army vehicles, Russian soldiers say that due to the ban they are now dependent on bicycles and taxis to get around and deliver supplies. /end
https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1866049013557973425
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