1/ A Russian mother protesting for the release of her son three years after he was mobilised has highlighted the plight of the remaining 'mobiks'. Over 85% are said to have died by now, and the remainder are being forced to sign contracts at gunpoint. ⬇️
https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1969849332351521222
2/ Lidiya Nekrasova, the mother of a mobilised soldier, was arrested in Moscow on Monday 21 September after holding a solitary picket while holding a sign reading "21 September 2022 – 21 September 2025. Freedom for the mobilised."
3/ She was immediately approached by police and told that "the topic of mobilised soldiers is forbidden to be raised." She folded the sign so that only the dates were visible, but the police told her that this was also unacceptable.
4/ Despite the ban, she continued to picket, telling the police before she was arrested and taken away: "I'm waiting to be arrested: I'm the mother of a mobilised soldier who's been at war for three years, who was seriously wounded, and who hasn't been allowed to go home…
5/ …for three years. I'm waiting for the Ministry of Defence to wake up and bring our boys back. They've been at the front for three years, and everything we say and everything we do is considered to be discrediting the Russian Ministry of Defence.
6/ "The fact that a mother wants her son to return: he's not a professional soldier, he was called up for mobilisation, and as a mother, I was promised by the Novosibirsk military registration and enlistment offices that the boys would be returned in six months, a year at most."
7/ Lidiya said in a pre-recorded video message that the authorities were trying everything possible to silence her and other mothers campaigning for the release of their mobilised sons, who are serving indefinitely and have been allowed little or no leave.
8/ "We are the ones who have something to say about what's happening, the chaos on the front lines, the terrible conditions our relatives are living in, who have been in the active combat zone for two years now, in stormtrooper units, many of whom have been transferred…
9/ …over the past year. And we're not allowed to talk about it."
According to her, the mobilised and their families are being pressured and threatened. "We are outside the law, we are outside the country, we have been thrown overboard somewhere..."
According to her, the mobilised and their families are being pressured and threatened. "We are outside the law, we are outside the country, we have been thrown overboard somewhere..."
10/ Lidiya says that the relatives were first met with promises from officials, then ignored, and finally arrested and fined for protesting.
11/ "The Ministry of Defence simply decided that shoving untrained soldiers into the front lines was enough, and there was no need to provide them with anything. And now you're fining us!"
12/ She also says that any of the remaining mobilised men who have not signed a contract will be forcibly compelled to do so by November 2025, after which they will be transferred to assault units if they have not signed – effectively equivalent to a death sentence.
13/ Signing a contract makes them into professional soldiers and renders them ineligible for demobilisation. Once this process is completed, almost all Russian soldiers will be serving under contracts, suggesting that there will be no demobilisation once the war is over.
14/ This strongly suggests that Putin intends to keep his army intact after the end of major combat operations in Ukraine, either for a further invasion of Ukraine at a later date or for a new aggression against another country.
15/ According to Lidiya, “Regardless of rank, regardless of position, regardless of specialism, regardless of the field in which a soldier has acquired this great experience—three years of experience—all mobilised soldiers who have not signed a contract will still be…
16/ …transferred to motorised rifle and assault units.”
Lidiya says that “every mobilised person has become a slave to the Ministry of Defence, and these aren’t just words, these are facts…"
Lidiya says that “every mobilised person has become a slave to the Ministry of Defence, and these aren’t just words, these are facts…"
17/ "People can’t escape from there, not when they’re sick, not when they’re crippled, not when their fourth child is born, nor can we pull the men out of there when they reach the age limit.”
18/ The author of the 'Diary of a Mobilised Musician' Telegram channel echoes her complaints, and comments that out of the original 300,000 mobilised men, only about 40,000 are said to be left – a loss rate of over 85%.
19/ "Meanwhile [in this unit], there are three of us, combat-ready service members who have retained our mobilised status, left. Some sources say there are 40,000 of us, others say less, and still others say much less. It's as if there's no one left to defend.
20/ "And there really isn't anyone [left]. Some [relatives] were intimidated to the point of threatening their children, others were forced to divorce their husbands under threat of assault. There are a whole bunch of stories like that."
21/ "The state is a remarkably inflexible machine, in which 300,000 is merely a resource.
– 'The death of one is a tragedy, the death of a thousand is a statistic.' © I.V. Stalin" /end
Sources:
🔹 t.me/ne_zhdi_novost…
🔹 t.me/ne_zhdi_novost…
🔹 t.me/mobik_music/304
– 'The death of one is a tragedy, the death of a thousand is a statistic.' © I.V. Stalin" /end
Sources:
🔹 t.me/ne_zhdi_novost…
🔹 t.me/ne_zhdi_novost…
🔹 t.me/mobik_music/304
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