Sitrep for February 7 – 8:

– Prigozhin asked Duma to amend the Criminal Code to prohibit the discrediting of mercenaries;
– The General Staff of UAF claimed over 1k Russian soldiers killed in 24h;
– The launch of a missile from the Belgorod region was made public.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-7-8

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 7 – 8:

Employees of the Voronezh confectionery factory received draft notices; another group of draftees from the Omsk region was sent to Ukraine; the Ministry of Labor will increase the number of vacancies for citizens who chose alternative civilian service.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-7-8

Sitrep for February 8 – 9:

– Heavy fighting continues in Svatove, Kreminna, Bakhmut, and Vuhledar directions;
– AFU firing Krasnopol high-precision guided shells;
– Wagner group stopped recruiting convicts because now the MoD does.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-8-9

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 8 – 9:

Mobilized soldiers from Tatarstan are being withdrawn from the frontline; Pskov region authorities continue to send doctors to the war zone; State Duma has passed the law on reservation of a time slot for crossing the state border on a truck.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-8-9

We wrote an analytical longread discussing what happened in Makiivka on the first of January, why it happened, and why incidents like this will most likely happen again. We also put the Russian Ministry of Defense in the spotlight. Enjoy.
https://notes.citeam.org/makiivka-en?1

Sitrep for February 9 – 10:

– At midnight on Feb. 10, the RuAF began to attack the territory of Ukraine with kamikaze drones;
– SpaceX took steps to prevent Ukrainian soldiers from using Starlink for controlling UAVs as it "never meant to be weaponized."

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-9-10

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 9 – 10:

Mobilized men from Samara have had no notes in their military IDs indicating that they participate in the “special military operation”; the State Duma will consider imposing harsher criminal penalties on draft dodgers; a draftee from St. Petersburg left his military unit taking an AK-74 rifle and ammunition rounds with him.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-9-10

Sitrep for February 10 – 11:

– Russian large-scale offensive is already underway;
– We don't see any signs of the near start of the 2nd mobilization;
– RU troops continue attempting to attack Vuhledar in the Kreminna & Svatove directions and around Bakhmut.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-10-11

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 10 – 11:

An officer petitioned to take him off the military rolls because of his objections to the war, State Duma members proposed to entitle veterans of the war in Ukraine to free parking, the school students were shown uncensored footage of the shooting of Russian soldiers.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-10-11

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 11 – 12:

Draftees from Tatarstan were returned to their regiment from a "DPR" unit; border guards of Moscow airports question the males who return to Russia for hours; the fur coats which were given to the widows of the killed soldiers from the "DPR" were stolen from a fur shop in Kherson.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-11-12

Sitrep for February 11 – 13:

– Bridge over Siverskyi Donets — Donbas was destroyed;
– General Zaluzhnyi confirmed the use of maritime surface drones by Russia;
– The next Ramstein Conference will take place tomorrow.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-11-13

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 12 – 13:

Deaths of 1082 mobilized men have been confirmed; draftees were threatened with death by Wagner Group mercenaries; Samara draftees are sent to assault missions without proper training.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-12-13

Sitrep for February 13– 14:

– Prigozhin hopes to create a PR image of the Wagner Group to obtain assets;
– We are still not convinced that the "Freedom of Russia Legion" exists;
– Investigation into Putin's armored train, which he uses to visit his residences.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-13-14

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 13 – 14:

Students in the Volgograd region are being forced to sign applications to voluntarily go through drafting activities; a draftee walked out to smoke marijuana which saved his life; Baikonur residents are promised a one-off payment of 260,000 rubles for participating in the war.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-13-14

Sitrep for February 14– 15:

– RU forces began to advance toward Siversk;
– Russian 20/yo draftee committed suicide as he "decided to die here in his native land, with no one's blood on his hands.";
– PR-war: "Kaskad" Special Unit for Russian parliamentarians.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-14-15

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 14 – 15:

A conscript hanged himself because of his unwillingness to go to war; at least 3,700 mobilized men from Buryatia were sent to war; the draftees from Samara, who asked Putin to return them home, were allegedly arrested.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-14-15

Sitrep for February 15– 16:

–On Feb. 16 vast RU missile attack on Ukraine began;
–Chief of UA Military Intelligence: the 2nd wave of mobilization in RU will start ~ Feb. 27;
–We trust that everyone (with few exceptions) from the RU army participates in the war.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-15-16

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 15 – 16:

In Tomsk University, they recruit people to work at mobilization alert stations; draftees from the 144th Division are being forced to fight on the front line; Kadyrov urged governors not to comment on the losses in the war.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-15-16

Sitrep for February 16– 17:

– Shell hunger is observed in the Wagner Group and in the Russian Army;
– In the Donetsk direction, fighting continues for Mariinka;
– Reportedly, Russian forces hit Kharkiv with an S-300 SAM system on the night of Feb. 17.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-16-17

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 16 – 17:

Deaths of 1,121 mobilized soldiers were confirmed; an employee of a draft board spreads lists of students who need to appear at the military commissariat; a man with objects resembling grenades was detained in Moscow.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-16-17

Sitrep for February 17– 18:

– Prigozhin: Wagner PMC is a private army that will continue operating around the world;
– US will welcome others handing fighter jets to Ukraine but hasn’t made promises itself.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-17-18