Sitrep for Apr 10-11:

– Denys Pushylin, acting head of the so-called DPR, visited Bakhmut and promised to rebuild the city;
– Negotiations between Ukraine and Denmark on the transfer of 100 Leopard 1 tanks are underway;
– Another POW exchange was arranged.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-10-11

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 10-11:

The State Duma has passed, in the second and third reading, the law that allows digital draft notices and bans draft notice recipients from leaving the country; draft offices will be able to send digital draft notices from the moment the law takes effect.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-apr-10-11

Sitrep for Apr 11-12:

– Video with the beheading of a Ukrainian PoW: a war crime, and could have been filmed quite a long time ago;
– Bakhmut direction situation is becoming more dangerous for the AFU;
– Duma amended the bill introducing digital draft notices.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-11-12

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 11-12:

The Federation Council approved the law on digital draft notices; the State Duma adopted an amendment allowing 18-year-olds to enlist under a contract right after graduating from school; the MoD asked Russian airlines to reserve 5 or 6 seats on flights for servicemen during the summer.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-apr-11-12

Sitrep for Apr 12-13:

– Everything is relatively quiet on the entire frontline;
– Secret Data Leak: according to Pentagon analysts, the war will not end in 2023;
– The US will get 500k 155mm artillery shells from South Korea to supply more to Ukraine while South Korea will maintain formal neutrality.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-12-13

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 12-13:

In Saint Petersburg, a military volunteer clean-up will be held; in Saratov, a striptease club promised free entry for veterans of the war in Ukraine throughout the summer; in Astrakhan, dozens of letters, which students of secondary school No. 74 wrote to soldiers at the front, were thrown into the trash can.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-apr-12-13

Sitrep for Apr 13-14:

– HRW released a report on how Russian soldiers detained and tortured people in and around Kherson in Mar–Nov 2022;
– T-54/T-55 tank was spotted on the frontline, while the upgraded T-72B3M tanks are on the victory day parade's rehearsal.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-13-14

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 13-14:

The law on digital draft notices came into force; military service under contract is being actively advertised in schools; posters appeared in Lyubertsy near Moscow inviting men to join the "Lyubertsy militia."

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-apr-13-14

Sitrep for Apr 14-15:

The main news of the week:
– Russian law on digital draft notices;
– Secret Pentagon documents got leaked;
– A part of Bakhmut remains under the control of Ukrainian forces, but there are some advancements by pro-Russian forces.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-14-15

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 14-16:

Recognition of military personnel as dead/missing in action has been simplified; a single mother and her daughter were subject to repression for refusing to attend "Talking about Important Things" classes; a decree on the spring and fall regular conscription in the "LPR" has been signed.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-apr-14-16

Sitrep for Apr 15-17:

– Strikes on the territory of Ukraine over the weekend;
– Easter prisoner exchange took place;
– Brochures handed out in Moscow mosques during prayer compare the invasion of Ukraine with a preventive war unleashed by the Prophet Muhammad.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-15-17

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 16-17:

Distribution of draft notices through the Gosuslugi portal (MinTsifry doesn't confirm) and via SMS text messages will be tested during the spring conscription; at least 750,000 Russians could pass through the war in Ukraine, according to Putin's State Fund for Support of Veterans of the “special military operation”.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-apr-16-17

Sitrep for Apr 17-18:

– On 17/04, Ukrainian forces hit power facilities in Belgorod;
– Budanov has said that everything in the AFU is going according to plan;
– Moscow will be using video surveillance systems to determine where conscripts live.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-17-18

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 17-18:

Russians will no longer be allowed to renounce their citizenship if they have an unfulfilled obligation to the Russian Federation; rumors about the capabilities of the facial recognition system operating in Moscow may be exaggerated.

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

Sitrep for Apr 18-19:

– Shahed drones attacked Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Odesa regions on April 18-19th.
– Zelenskyy visited Avdiivka;
– Policemen from Moscow Special Regiment may end up protecting objects on the occupied territories.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-18-19

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 18-19:

A bill has been introduced allowing mobilization into internal affairs agencies, an HIV-positive person is being kept in a pit in the Kherson region, the wife of a mobilized man from Karachay-Cherkessia was brought tickets to the circus instead of promised firewood.

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

Sitrep for Apr 19-20:

– The situation remains stable along the entire frontline, despite ongoing active hostilities in some areas;
– Air bomb was dropped on a high-rise building in Vuhledar on Apr 19th, a building partially destroyed;
– Russian MoD released a video promoting contract service, which looks like a video ad for PTSD.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-19-20

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 19-20:

The military commissar of St. Petersburg announced that the distribution of digital draft notices has begun; Yevgeny Prigozhin denies the forced transfer of mobilized men to private military companies; the mother of a soldier killed in the war speaks to schoolchildren about the need for the "special military operation"

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

Sitrep for Apr 20-21:

– Russia was planning to strike Ukraine with FAB-1500 large air-drop bombs, but instead hit the Russian city of Belgorod on the evening of the 20th, no casualties reported;
– Another Ramstein-format meeting was held on the 21st.

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 20-21:

Draft boards do not comply with directives of the Ministry of Defense, including the directive on deferment for fathers of three or more children; the Kremlin will try to avoid the topic of war during the election campaigns of governors; students in Moscow report mass serving of draft notices.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-apr-200-21