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

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 17 – 18:

Students of the Moscow Academy of Veterinary Medicine are forced to attend a meeting with a military commissar on Feb. 21; a single electronic database may be tested this spring; a man drafted by mistake has to repay 100,000 rubles to the state.

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 18 – 19:

А State Duma member demands apologies from all mobilized soldiers who previously recorded their complaints about the command; four fighters with assault rifles are wanted in the Rostov region; a draftee robbed his wife during the last day of his leave.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-18-19

Sitrep for February 18– 20:

– The AFU manage to hold back Russian Forces in the battle for Bakhmut;
– The US claimed over 30,000 casualties of the Wagner Group;
– Western countries in fact do not have any stock of tanks to transfer to Ukraine immediately.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-18-20

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 19 – 20:

More than 600 Russian mobilized soldiers are based at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant; a draftee threatened to blow up a branch of VTB Bank due to a debt write-off; Russia’s regions hold fund-raising telethons dedicated to Defender of the Fatherland Day.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-19-20

Sitrep for February 20– 21:

– Biden announced a new $460 million aid package during a visit to Kyiv;
– All main supply routes of Bakhmut are cut;
– Japan's Prime Minister announced a new $5.5 billion financial aid package for Ukraine.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-20-21

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 20 – 21:

College students were kept locked to be served draft notices, universities started providing military commissariats with data about expelled students, The New York Times reports that Putin may mobilize hundreds of thousands more Russians in the near future.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-20-21

Sitrep for February 21– 22:

– 10 or 15 explosions were reported in Mariupol and some other towns on the Russian-controlled territory;
– Russian forces hit Kharkiv and Kherson;
– Numerous field commanders from separatist republics are not admitted to RU AF.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-21-22

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 21 – 22:

Putin's initiative to provide 14-day vacations to servicemen fighting in Ukraine is hard to implement; the regions are limiting the number of bodies of killed in Ukraine that can be released daily; veterans of the war in Ukraine are allowed to sell hot dogs on the central square of Novgorod.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-21-22

Sitrep for February 22– 23:

– Russian morgues directed to limit the daily "release" of soldiers' corpses;
– Death of 35 y/o commander of the Azov Regiment, Oleh Mudrak, who spent several months in captivity;
– Some Russian shells belong to the "unusable" category.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-22-23

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 22 – 23:

The Kremlin is discussing the possibility of introducing "coffin capital"; mobile contract military service recruitment facilities are appearing in Russia; a court in Dagestan refused to consider the claims of the families of mobilized fathers of many children.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-22-23

Sitrep for February 23– 24:

– One year anniversary since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine;
– Our conservative estimate of RU AF losses: at least 40k killed and 120k wounded;
– Pentagon announced a new $2 bill package of assistance for Ukraine.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-23-34

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 23 – 24:

The deaths of at least 15,136 Russian soldiers were confirmed by Mediazona and BBC News Russian; regional media outlets published the lists of killed residents of their specific regions; Mediazona recalls how anti-war activists protested against the war over the year.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-23-24

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 24 – 25:

Officials in Tomsk will learn how to organize mobilization, mobilized soldiers received moldy sausage for the Feb. 23 holiday, statistics on domestic violence significantly increased after the start of the war.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-24-25