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

Sitrep for December 31 – January 2:

– Russian positions in Makiivka were attacked, reported number of killed mobilized soldiers varies from several dozens to hundreds;
– 22 aerial targets shot during the strike on Kyiv on 31st of Dec.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-dec-31-jan-2

Volunteer Mobilization brief December 31 – January 2:

An AFU strike by HIMARS MLRS hit a vocational school with the mobilized; 6 armed convicts who escaped from the Wagner Group’s training center are wanted in the Rostov region; soldiers were asked to chip in to procure vehicles for the battalion.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-dec-31-jan-2

Sitrep for January 2 – 3:

– Russian forces carried out a strike on Druzhkivka;
– Russian MoD statement on Makiivka: 63 killed;
– Ukrainian forces advanced in the area of the villages of Pidkuichansk and Kolomyichykha.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-jan-2-3

Sitrep for January 3 – 4:

– Russian MoD update on Makiivka - 89 people were killed;
– Fighting continues around Kupiansk, Svatove, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Kreminna;
– Ukrainian forces continue to strike Russian military targets on the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia axes.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-jan-3-4

Volunteer Mobilization brief Jan 2 – 4:

Mobilized artillerymen and driver-mechanics are reassigned to infantry; 538 draftees were killed in action as of Jan. 2; Soldiers' Widows of Russia urged Putin to conduct a large-scale mobilization and close the borders.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-jan-2-4

Sitrep for January 4 – 5:

– Ukrainian strikes on Russian military targets are reported in occupied southern regions of Ukraine;
– Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov suggests that Russia is preparing for an escalation in Feb. 2023.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-jan-4-5

Volunteer Mobilization brief Jan 4 – 6:

Russian authorities want to carry out "income mobilization"; first reports about draftees killed in the strike on Makiivka appeared; soldiers asked to send them gear instead of sweets and cookies.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-jan-4-6

Volunteer Mobilization brief Jan 6 – 8:

State Duma member urged the Government and the Defense Ministry to start preparing a mobilization reserve, the AFU report a strike on a base of Russian mobilized soldiers in Rubizhne, and Ukrainian intelligence named a new date of the second wave of mobilization in Russia.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-jan-6-8

Sitrep for January 5 – 9:

– Russian forces advanced toward Soledar and captured Bakhmutske;
– Witness accounts have emerged of Russia using thermite incendiary munitions in Marinka – it is a war crime;
– Military aid for Ukraine from the US and Germany.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-jan-5-9?1

Volunteer Mobilization brief Jan 8 – 9:

Mobilized soldiers from Irkutsk were sent to the front in freight-cars; a tent camp of mobilized soldiers burned down near Orenburg; confirmations of the HIMARS MLRS strike on Shakhtarsk on Dec. 31, 2022, appeared.

https://notes.citeam.org/mobi-jan-8-9

Sitrep for January 9 – 10:

– Pro-Russian forces are trying to cut off 2 of 3 Bakhmut's supply routes: to Siversk and Sloviansk;
– Fierce battles continue on the Donetsk axis, and neither side has progressed;
– Russian forces launched a powerful attack on Ochakiv.

https://notes.citeam.org/dispatch-jan-9-10