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

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