Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ After nearly three years of war, the few survivors of Russia's September 2022 mobilisation have had enough. A bitter commentary by four 2022-vintage 'mobiks' highlights the war-weariness and frustration being felt. ⬇️

2/ 'Vokzhak' writes:

"THINGS WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT

This is a difficult topic and not pleasant for everyone, but here I will try to express as correctly as possible the consolidated opinion of my friends, those guys who were called up with me in '22 and who are still alive."

3/ [Mobik 1]: "We are not newbies anymore. We are burned out as hell. I am going to the combat mission and I don't care what will happen there, whether they will kill me or not, whether we will complete the task...

4/ "You can't throw people to their death for three years and demand full dedication from them. Yes, new contract soldiers come. They do not live long. Some are lucky, some are not.

5/ "Sometimes it seems to me that when it's all over, they will stretch barbed wire around the line of contact, and they will not let us out into civilian life. Because they will be afraid of what we can say."

6/ [Mobik 2]: "We are about twenty years behind in artillery. The 120 mm mortar [likely meaning the 2B11, which is based on the Model 1943 mortar] will soon be 100 years old.

7/ "If anyone thinks that the three sevens [M777] are a bad Yankee howitzer, I will disappoint you: this is an excellent howitzer. We need a radical update in barrel artillery."

8/ [Mobik 3]: "Fuck this Kyiv! When will they let the mobiks go home?"

9/ [Mobik 4]: "Dimon, you visit Moscow, don't you? Well, tell them about us, the mobilised ones! We went like our grandfathers and great-grandfathers. Why did they forget about us?

10/ "I come to Moscow. Everything is fine in the capital. New paving stones, car sharing, taxis, girls and guys laughing in cafes. Who and what can I tell there?" /end

Source:
t.me/vozhak_Z/1654