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

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 5 – 6:

An expert group on the evaluation of proposals for the punishments for Russian emigrants will be formed in the State Duma; mobilized men complain about threats and violence from the “DPR People's Militia”; a criminal case was filed against a mobilized man for trying to get custodial care for his sick mother.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-5-6

Sitrep for February 6 – 7:

– Presence of the RuAF visually confirmed in the NE part of Bakhmut;
– Drone crashed near Kaluga (that’s relatively close to Moscow);
– Video where Wagner Group mercenaries allegedly finish off one of their comrades with sledgehammers.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-6-7

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 6 – 7:

A bill to prohibit ads offering potential conscripts to legally avoid military service is introduced to the State Duma, a mobilized man revealed that he had been beaten by commanders, Omsk authorities plan to expand the cemetery for those killed in the war.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-6-7

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