Volunteer Mobilization brief Jan 25–26:

According to the AFU, a new wave of mobilization in Russia will start end of February, the Ministry of Health offers doctors to undergo additional training in military medicine, age limits of conscripts will stay the same during the spring conscription.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-jan-25-26

Sitrep for January 26–27:

– the strategic importance of Vuhledar;
– Lockheed Martin intends to increase production of the F-16 aircraft to backfill the needs;
– successful tests of Ukrainian 22S2 Bohdana 155mm wheeled self-propelled howitzer.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-jan-26-27

Volunteer Mobilization brief Jan 26–27:

Mobilize soldiers were taken to a forest line and forced to sign contracts; the deaths of 823 have been confirmed; schools near Bryansk were instructed to prepare for the accommodation of troops.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-jan-26-27

Sitrep for January 27–28:

– Video showing Vuhledar landscape that looks almost like a lunar one;
– Russian forces attacked Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region;
– The US imposed sanctions on a Chinese company that sold satellite radar images to the Wagner Group.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-jan-27-28

Volunteer Mobilization brief Jan 27–28:

State Duma continues working on 20 new bills on draft deferral eligibility; mobilized soldiers have to sign a document to confirm their support of the “special military operation”; 700 mln rubles allocated for supporting participants of the war in Ukraine.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-jan-27-28

Volunteer Mobilization brief Jan 28–29:

Residents of the Pskov region are offered to go to the war; mobilized soldiers have got Batman style balaclavas; students of a boarding school in the Kemerovo region are made to assist the families of the mobilized.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-jan-28-29

Sitrep for January 28–30:

– The Wagner Group announced on Jan. 28 that it had captured Blahodatne;
– On the evening of Jan. 29, Russian forces attacked Kharkiv;
– Ukrainian forces hit a railway bridge in Starobohdanivka.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-jan-28-30

Volunteer Mobilization brief Jan 29–30:

The court sentenced a mobilized man to one year in penal colony; vocational school students are being coerced into signing an informed consent form to “voluntarily” join a boot camp; the prosecution asked for 13 years in a penal colony for filming the arson of a draft office.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-jan-29-30

Sitrep for January 30–31:

– Supply route from Siversk to Bakhmut is no longer available;
– Russian MoD offered to supply weapons, military vehicles, and technical resources to volunteer regiments;
– Increased fighting continues on the Zaporizhzhia axis.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-jan-30-31

Volunteer Mobilization brief Jan 30–31:

Prosecutor General of Russia reported on more than 9000 illegally mobilized citizens returned home; draft offices in Russia will identify those who want to fight in Ukraine; with no possibility to maintain personal hygiene draftees were infested with lice and itch mites.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-jan-30-31

Sitrep for January 31 – February 1:

– Vuhledar: the pace of Russian attacks slowed down.
– A new package of military aid from the US to Ukraine, including GLSDBs, and their potential impact;
– First “Terrorist Act” verdict for setting fire to a draft office.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-jan-31-feb-1

Volunteer Mobilization brief Jan 30 – Feb 1:

The Saint Petersburg State University announced the check-up of military service register data of staff several months earlier than usual; a military commissar is suspected of providing illegal deferrals; Mongolia is ready to accept Russians fleeing mobilization.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-jan-31-feb-1

Sitrep for February 1 – 2:

– Intense combat activities are going on in almost every sector of the frontline;
– Kramatorsk was hit twice in two days;
– Wagner Group faced the problem of removing bodies from the front line.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-1-2

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 1 – 2:

State Duma members introduced a bill that would give commanders the authority to execute non-judicial disciplinary arrests; Russia’s Ministry of Defense started developing a psychological rehabilitation program for senior officers; soldiers from Chechnya attempted to take weapons from the front.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-1-2

Sitrep for February 2 – 3:

– Fighting intensified on the eastern outskirts of Bakhmut;
– Russian forces shelled Barvenkove in the Kharkiv region;
– A picture of a cat confirmed the presence of the Tochka-U system in the Russian Armed Forces.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-2-3

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 2 – 3:

Deaths of 924 mobilized soldiers confirmed; a State Duma member proposes to mobilize unemployed citizens of Russia; according to the Ministry of Defense, a decree on the end of mobilization may "violate the rights of mobilized men" in the context of payments.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-2-3

Sitrep for February 3 – 4:

– DoD announced a new package of security assistance;
– We make our estimates of RU AF casualties:
– We do not expect Bakhmut to be surrounded in the coming days.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-3-4

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 3 – 4:

The government of the Stavropol region refuses to recognize draft deferrals for fathers of three; state-owned outpatient clinics in Moscow have been registering the receipt of draft notices in the patients’ medical records; State Duma member went to the war but changed his mind half way through.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-3-4

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 4 – 5:

Members of Penza regional Legislative Assembly propose to toughen the punishment for evading conscription for military service; six mobilized men fled in the Voronezh region; medical students from Kazan are being prepared for missions in Donbas.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-4-5

Sitrep for February 4 – 6:

– The incident with the potential of becoming “a second Makiivka”;
– @FinancialTimes: adviser to Ukrainian military says Russia may launch a large attack within 10 days;
– Pro-Russian forces progressed in the northern part of Bakhmut.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-4-6