Sitrep for December 15 — 16

– Pro-Russian sources claim that Russian troops repulsed AFU's attack near Sofiivka;
– the AFU reports on striking targets in Tokmak, Polohy, and Berdiansk;
– Rheinmetall plans to construct a new factory in Germany to produce ammunition.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-dec-15-16

Sitrep for December 16 — 17

- Report of strikes on Stakhanov (Kadiivka);
- Mercenaries of the Wagner Group in Yakovlivka;
- Russia is accumulating resources for a repeated large-scale attack.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-dec-16-17

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 15 – 16:

Central Bank of Russia has reported lack of manpower due to the mobilization; first three sentences were issued for desertion and abandoning a unit during mobilization; fathers of 1356 children have been mobilized in Karelia.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-dec-15-16

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 16 – 17:

Draft officer for the Moscow region claimed that the term of regular conscription service would be extended to 2 years for those enlisted in the fall of 2023; officials сonsider that the mobilization contributes to reducing gang violence.

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 17 – 18:

In 2022, Moscow courts registered a record number of lawsuits filed against draft offices; an exhibition of military equipment is being held in Moscow, however, items presented there are being massively collected in the regions as part of “volunteer initiatives”.

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

Sitrep for December 17 — 19

– On Dec. 19, at least 20 kamikaze drones attacked Kyiv, 15 were shot down;
– Ukrainian forces use М971 120mm mortar cluster munitions each containing 24 anti-tank and armor-piercing submunitions; they have never been used in this war.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-dec-17-19

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 18 – 19:

Volunteers who have signed contracts with MoD cannot break them now and are forced to continue their service; mobilized from Altai region were sent to the front line as part of a company assembled from former convicts.

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

Sitrep for December 19 – 20

– Soledar axis becoming one of the most important due to supply routes for Bakhmut;
– The Belgorod region came under fire again;
– Revisiting The New York Times's investigative report on Russia's war failures.

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 19 – 20:

Putin created a working group on mobilization; Moscow police forces foreign laborers to join the Army; conscript soldiers are to be transferred from abandoned houses to live in trenches to give space for the mobilized.

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

Sitrep for December 20–21

— President Zelenskyy addressed the Congress in Washington D.C.;
— New package of US $1.8 billion aid to Ukraine has been announced;
— AFU are within several kilometres of Kreminna.

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

Sitrep for December 21–22:

— Plans to reform the Russian Army were announced;
— Anti-war protests in Russia have broken a ten-year record for arrests;
— Details of the new American military aid package to Ukraine became known.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-dec-21-22

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 20 – 21:

Russian Defense Minister calls for increasing army to 1.5 million troops and raising draft age from 18 to 21; 830 thousand people were exempted from mobilization;

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-dec-20-21

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 21 – 22:

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited the "special operation" zone for the second time in a week; women health workers continue to be issued draft deferrals as part of mobilization; children of the “special military operation” participants will be able to skate for free in Moscow parks.


https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-dec-21-22

Sitrep for December 22–23:

– Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited the “special operation” zone for the second time in a week;
– The New York Times published an article about killings of civilians in Bucha.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-dec-22-23

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 22 – 23:

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow called for deferment from the draft for clergy to be legislated, unknown people set fire to a military commissariat in the Saratov region, at least 492 mobilized Russians have died since the beginning of the war

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-dec-22-23

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 23 – 24:

Draft notices in St. Petersburg are still being delivered to citizens; in Moscow recruiters hand out leaflets to migrants to sign up for the Russian Army; mobilized residents of Bashkortostan left at least 7547 children at home

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 24 – 25:

An overview of the features and consequences of Shoigu's military reform, yurts from Buryatia shamans installed to conduct the rituals to "prolong the lives of the mobilized"; medals made of “fragments of NATO ammunition”

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-dec-24-25

Sitrep for December 23-26:

- Ukrainian drone attack on the Engels airbase on the night of Dec. 26;
– Explosions were heard near the airfield in Kursk;
– The UAE is going to transfer 2.5 thousand generators to Ukraine by the end of the year.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-dec-23-26

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 25 – 26:

16 thousand families of the mobilized applied in Moscow for a one-time payment; two men accused of setting a draft office on fire are now facing more severe charges; self-sacrifice is now taught in schools at the “Talking About Important Things” lessons.

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

Sitrep for December 26–27:

– A video by the Wagner Group mercenaries where they scold Gen. Gerasimov on the shell hunger due to logistics;
– Change of the Western Military District commander of the RuAF;
– Russian forces are attacking in the direction of Nevske and Ploshchanka.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-dec-26-27