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

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 21-23:

The Mayor’s Office of Novosibirsk denied permission to hold a protest rally “for peace” and against digital draft notices; in Crimea, leaflets advertising the "Convoy Private Military Company" are being distributed by children; an article on the influx of illegal weapons linked with the start of the war has been published.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-apr-21-23

Sitrep for Apr 21-24:

– The bombs dropped on Belgorod were not the first such incident involving the Russian Aerospace Forces;
– Russian forces continue to cut off supply routes to defenders in Bakhmut;
– Prigozhin ordered his fighters "not to take Ukrainian soldiers prisoner."

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-21-24

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 23–24:

Senator Turchak proposed to Putin to entitle territorial defense personnel to carry and use firearms; lawyers considered how to request to be taken off the military rolls remotely; a military serviceman from Stavropol is accused of killing his own grandmother.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-apr-23-24

Sitrep for Apr 24-25:

- pro-Russian forces made a lodgement on Bakhmut's "road of life";
– Russia continues grain blackmail;
– Russian propagandists claim the appearance of T-14 Armata tanks at the front.

http://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-24-25

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 24–25:

During mobilization in Russia, more than 12,000 breaches of the law were identified; a conscript fled from his unit due to systematic beatings by fellow soldiers; a resident of Crimea established a channel for smuggling military products abroad.

https://notes.citeam.org/editor/mobi-apr-24-25

Sitrep for Apr 25-26:

– another mass death of mobilized soldiers due to the negligence of command was revealed;
– Vyorstka released an article about Putin's motives for starting the war;
– JDAM-ER have been reportedly used in Ukraine for the first time.

http://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-25-26

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 25–26:

Residents of St. Petersburg receive paper draft notices of a new type; ten members of Russian regional parliaments have already been killed in the war; relatives of draftees complain that their leaves were canceled in anticipation of the Ukrainian counteroffensive.

http://notes.citeam.org/mobi-apr-25-26

Sitrep for Apr 26-27:

– a journalist of La Repubblica came under Russian fire, and his Ukrainian guide was killed;
– the activity of the RuAF in Belarus this winter was a psyop;
– the conflict between the Wagner Group and the Redut PMC continues.

http://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-26-27

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 26–27:

Russia’s Federation Council approved a law allowing all military personnel with special training to take part in “peacekeeping” missions; students of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music were apprehended in the dormitory and transported to the draft office; Russian citizens were detained in the Belgorod region for smuggling ammunition from Ukraine.

http://notes.citeam.org/mobi-apr-26-27

Sitrep for Apr 27-28:

– Another massive missile strike on Ukraine — a missile destroyed part of a residential building;
– The RuAF are gunning for Ukrainian air defense;
– The MoD continues recruiting convicts across Russia for the war in Ukraine

http://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-27-28

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 27–28:

Deaths of 2001 mobilized soldiers have been confirmed; Putin instructed the Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Defense and Russian Academy of Sciences to submit proposals in order to organize “the historical study of the special military operation”; watch groups were created in Moscow to search for drones during the May holidays

http://notes.citeam.org/mobi-apr-27-28

Volunteer Mobilization brief April 28–30:

Russia’s Ministry of Defense published a draft amendment to the conscription regulations as a follow-up to the newly adopted law on the digitization of military service records; taxes can be increased to help the state continue financing the “special military operation"; people suffering from serious illnesses have been drafted

http://notes.citeam.org/mobi-apr-28-30

Sitrep for Apr 28 — May 1:

– The RuAF reported on the attack on a propellant depot in Pavlohrad;
– Russian propaganda tried to pass off videos from Uman as the aftermath of the shelling of Donbas by the AFU;
– Prigozhin threatens to withdraw his fighters from Bakhmut.

http://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-apr-28-may-1