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2/ An account from a mobilised soldier in the second line of the Russian defences tells of how the military police are targeting men for trivial or invented offences. The anonymous account is published on the 'Alex Carrier' Telegram channel. His informant writes:
2/ The facility at Mulino, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, was the controversial focus of a project to equip it by the German company Rheinmetall. The @kamilkazani thread below highlights a now-deleted page from the company's website:
2/ The pro-government newspaper Izvestia reports that the new units are "designed to storm fortifications and conduct reconnaissance in the immediate rear of the enemy." They will be incorporated into combined arms armies and a newly formed army corps.
2/ The Wagner-affiliated Grey Zone Telegram channel, which appears to represent those still loyal to the late Yevgeny Prigozin, says that a force of those who refused to join the march on Moscow has been recruited by Wagner's former personnel director.
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that although nobody has been charged over the mutiny, "the FSB continues to actively search for high officials who may have been involved in the June "march of justice", organised by the head of PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin."
2/ In his original 21 September 2022 announcement of mobilisation, Putin stated that the mobilised would get two months' leave every six months. Soldiers have to petition their commanders for leave, but are commonly finding they're not being given permission.
2/ Radio Free Europe reports on several such cases. Nikolai from the 27th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade has been sent back to the front line despite being unable to walk without painkillers due to his legs being damaged by shrapnel. His mother is appealing to prosecutors.
2/ A joint investigation by Important Stories and the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) has analysed the reported deaths of thousands of mobilised Russians. They found that almost every region of Russia has sustained fatalities, with the youngest just 19 and the oldest aged 62.
3/ The Moscow-based news website MSK1 reports that there has been a record surge in adverts from employers to fill these roles. Before the war in Ukraine, the number of such vacancies on job search websites was only 10-16 per month.
2/ ASTRA reports the account of Evgeny P., as told to his wife Evgeniya on 18 September. He says that while fighting with the 27th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade near Bakhmut in May, he suffered a shrapnel wound and was sent to hospital. However, he was not treated.
2/ In April 2023, the Russian media reported on the case of Colonel Alexander Denisov, then the head of the Southern Military District's technical support department for the armoured vehicle service.
2/ Bogdanov has started a Wagner-themed taxi service in the town of Bolotnoye, about 128 km north-east of the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. So far it only has one car, but he says business is good and plans to expand. 
2/ Russia's Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (Mintrud) has listed an order for nearly a million certificates on the Russian government's procurement portal. As well as 230,000 for family members of the deceased, the order includes 757,305 combat veterans' certificates.
2/ The Russian newspaper Kommersant reports that Corporal Madina Kabaleva, from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, was convicted by a court in the Russian Army's Southern Military District for "failure to appear for service without good reason during the period of mobilisation".
2/ The newspaper Kommersant reports that Lt Col Vladislav Gukov, formerly the head of a division of the Russian MOD's procurement department, has been sent to a strict regime (maximum security) prison colony, fined 45.9 million rubles ($474,147), and stripped of his medals.
2/ The Russian independent news outlet 'We can explain' (MO) reports that Wagner fighters, sent 'on vacation' after the Prigozhin mutiny in June, are finding it difficult to get new jobs after the Wagner Group's expulsion from the war in Ukraine.
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that "Surovikin was in civilian clothes at all meetings, which confirms his dismissal from the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces." He was recently reported to have been found a new position.
2/ Many submarines have been lost through accidents since the end of World War II. The United States lost 4, the USSR and Russia lost 18, and other countries lost a handful of vessels as well. But only one other country definitely lost one due to enemy action: Argentina.