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

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 25 – 26:

TV Rain found Ukrainian kids in 24 boarding schools in Russia, in 21 out of 24, they engage in “patriotic activities”: listening to the MoD Spokesman and writing to soldiers.

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

Sitrep for February 24– 27:

– First Leopard tanks arrived in Ukraine from Poland;
– General Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the RuAF, authorizes every supply of ammunition for Wagner Group;
– 2 partisans attacked Machulishchy military airfield in Belarus.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-24-27?1

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 26 – 27:

Perm University will compile lists of students and employees who can be drafted, jobs after the mobilization of workers were filled by students in the Lipetsk region, a man returned from the war blew up a grenade in a residential building.

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

Sitrep for February 27– 28:

– Ukrainian forces hold positions in Bakhmut;
– In the Belgorod region, 10 billion rub (~$134 mil) was spent on defensive fortifications;
– Regional administration reported helping a mobilized man's mother fix her outdoor toilet door.

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief Feb 27 – 28:

An office of the Russian Post is looking for a mobilization training specialist; ​​a conscript from Crimea has committed suicide in ​​the Belgorod region; on average, soldiers disappear 60 days after being sent to the front.

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

Sitrep for February 28 – March 1:

– The situation in the Bakhmut direction remains difficult for the Ukrainian side;
– On Feb. 28, there was a mass drone attack on facilities in Russia;
– We asked ChatGPT to write heroic epos following the style of Russian MoD.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-feb-28-mar-1

Volunteer Mobilization brief February 28 – March 1:

Possible criminalization of "discrediting" of those involved in the war; 1439th regiment's mobilized sent to assault contrary to Gov. Kobzev's promise; lawyers and military analysts' opinions on vacations during the war.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-feb-28-mar-1

Sitrep for March 1 – 2:

– Operational encirclement of Bakhmut;
– Introduction of the bill on liability for discrediting the participants of the war in Ukraine;
– Photos of Russian Beriev A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft after the attack.

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief March 1 – 2:

Russian courts began to grant exemptions from sentences to those wishing to fight in Ukraine; mobilized men die of a drug overdose or distract their commanders by a knife fight; a school was renamed in honor of a Wagner Group mercenary killed in the war.

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

Sitrep for March 2 – 3:

– Photo of blown up the bridge across a small river on the last road that could be used to leave Bakhmut;
– 2 new videos from the Machulishchy air base were published, and now Russian soldiers understand that it isn't safe to be there.

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief March 2 – 3:

Relatives of draftees assigned to the 1439th Regiment claim that there is nothing left of the regiment, draftees continue to complain about violence and death threats, the regular biannual conscription age could change this fall.

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