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

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 26 – 27:

8 draftees traveled from the Luhansk region to Podolsk with their weapons, an elderly married couple attempted to set a draft office on fire, the police caught a passenger on the metro to take him to a draft office.

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

Sitrep for December 27–28:

– Ru forces are reported to advance on the Bakhmut axis;
– On Dec. 27, Kherson was hit; on 28th – Kharkiv;
– A mobilized man in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was sentenced to 20 months in a penal settlement for refusing to go to the war.

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 27 – 28:

A drunk draftee beat an officer to death; in Yekaterinburg, families of the mobilized men killed in the war will receive a payment of 30,000 rubles; draftees now have the right to cryopreserve their sperm free of charge

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

Sitrep for December 28–29:

– Kamikaze drone attack on the territory of Ukraine on Dec. 28th;
– A massive missile strike on Dec. 29th;
– France created a fund of 200 million euros enabling Ukraine to purchase everything it needs directly from French manufacturers.

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 28 – 29:

MoD published a draft decree on the creation of field detention facilities; Kadyrov ignored questions about the problems of volunteers of the Akhmat Battalion; draftees found themselves at the front without documents.

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

Sitrep for December 29–30:

- The AFU was able to advance from the northwestern side of Svatove.
- The AFU reports on strikes against Russian military facilities on the Zaporizhzhia axis.
– It is not unlikely that on Dec. 30, 2023 the war will continue.

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

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 29 – 30:

Death gratuity payments allegedly contribute to the growth of the economy in villages; three years in a penal settlement for not going to war; Vesna movement’s petition demands the release of Russians who refused to fight.

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