Volunteer Mobilization brief November 27–28

Draft offices began to ban men from leaving if they received notices to "clarify their data”, a court said that the mobilization is ongoing, and representatives of a PMC are training draftees in a military camp in Chebarkul.

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

Sitrep for November 28–29

– News that general mobilization will begin on December 10 arouses scepticism;
– Ukrainian Ukroboronprom reportedly launched the production of 152 mm ammunition;
– The situation continues to develop on the Bakhmut axis.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-nov-28-29

Volunteer Mobilization brief November 28–29

Attorneys are to be exempt from the mobilization; Russian soldiers spoke about the shortage of food, uniforms and weapons; Officials claimed to develop “scripts and checklists” to tell a child about the loss of their father.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-nov-28-29

Sitrep for November 29–30

– Almaz-Antey Corporation presented a new “Russian” drone which is a slightly moded Chinese one;
– Russian MoD stated that the settlements of Bilohorivka and Pershe Travnya came under Russian control;
– Bryansk and Kursk regions were hit.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-nov-29-30

Volunteer Mobilization brief November 29–30

A mobilization order was ruled illegal for the first time; Russian MoD did not approve the exemption of Doctors and PhDs from the draft; the 12th known improvised prison for Russian refuseniks was found by ASTRA outlet.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-nov-29-30

Sitrep for November 30 – December 1

– Another mass grave was found in the liberated village in the Kherson region;
– Der Spiegel warns of the threat of new Russian missile strikes on Ukraine;
– The interview with a captured Wagner Group mercenary recruited from prison.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-nov-30-dec-1

Volunteer Mobilization brief November 30 – December 1

Official responce: the end of the mobilization draft does not mean the end of mobilization itself; soldiers claim they've been sent to the frontline under death threats; Russian women's protest grows more structured.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-nov-30-dec-1

Sitrep for December 1 – 2

– It is now officially confirmed – "partial" mobilization continues;
– Soldiers abandoned by their command near Luhansk were sent back to the front;
– No significant movements on the front lines were observed due to weather conditions.

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 1 – 2

A citizen of Belarus drafted; “We came under fire from our own artillery,” the Russian soldier released from a basement in the so-called DPR; a group of mobilized soldiers from Russia abandoned near Luhansk.

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 2 – 3

Heating problems in some Russian regions due to mobilization; schoolgirls from the Kostroma region sew handkerchiefs with embroidered prayers for Russian soldiers; another riot of mobilized soldiers in Kazan.

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 3 – 4

Belarusians summoned to draft centers for “data check-up” reported to have found mobilization orders glued into their military ID, and the son of Alexander Litvinenko reported an attempt made to mobilize him.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-dec-3-4

Sitrep for December 2-5

– An explosion at the Engels Air Base in the Saratov region of Russia;
– Fighting continues for Opytne and Vodiane in the Bakhmut direction;
– Over the past two weeks, the city of Kherson was attacked 169 times

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-dec-2-5

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 4 – 5

Local authorities sent letters to Moscow residents threatening criminal liability for nonappearance to draft offices; soldiers deserted because they were starving; draftees shooting at targets depicting president Zelenskyy.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-dec-4-5

Sitrep for December 5 – 6

– Details of Ukrainian drone attacks on the Engels and Dyagilevo Russian Air Bases on Dec. 5 have emerged;
– Active fighting is happening only along the Bakhmut axis;
– Draft offices got MoD's order to again begin intensive mobilization work.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-dec-5-6

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 5 – 6

Mobilization activities in the Russian Federation may resume in the coming days; In Rostov region, an unidentified man wearing camouflage and armed with a machine gun wounded a police officer and fled the scene. Reportedly, the felon in question is a deserter.

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

Sitrep for December 6 – 7

– Main news: appearance of Shahed-136 kamikaze drones on the territory of Ukraine.
– Our team continues to scrutinize photographs of impact sites in Donetsk;
– Pro-Russian forces are already slightly east of Klishchiivka.

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 6 – 7

Putin – “new mobilization is not needed.”; State Duma member Maksim Ivanov proposed to create a military prison for “30 year old mama's boys and spoilt brats”; a mobilized jumped out of the window from the fourth floor to to avoid being drafted.

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

Sitrep for December 7 – 8

– Putin – “special operation” could be quite lengthy;
– Volodymyr Zelenskyy – peace may come for Ukrainians as early as next year;
– On 7/12, Russian forces attacked the town of Kurakhove, 8 people killed & 5 injured. It is a war crime.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-dec-7-8

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 7 – 8

Russian Senator stated that Russia has no need for a presidential decree to formally end mobilization because there is no greater power than Putin’s word; Russians of draft age began to be denied work due to the mobilization.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-dec-7-8

Sitrep for December 8 – 9

– The situation on the Kupiansk axis continues to change. There is evidence that Ukrainian forces managed to liberate Kyslivka;
– Russian troops brought several Grad MLRS to the territory of the seized Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-dec-8-9