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1/ Russia's regions lack money to pay mobilised soldiers, leading to the mobilised and their families being paid with potatoes, fish, coal, firewood, deer carcasses or not getting...
1/ Mobilised Russian soldiers were sent to the front line at gunpoint near Svatove before being defeated and fleeing. They have been told by their commanders, "You are decommission...
1/ Only four out of 91 mobilised Russians lasted a week under HIMARS and shell fire on the front line in eastern Ukraine. They were told by their colonel that their "equipment is w...
1/ Russia's retreat from Kherson marks another major milestone besides the Ukrainian recapture of the city: Ukraine has now retaken half of all the territory originally captured by...
1/ Wives and mothers of mobilised Russian soldiers have mounted a raid into the war zone to find and rescue their men from the Russian army. They found them sitting in fields witho...
1/ One of the biggest mysteries of this war, at least to me, is why the Russians don't seem to have undertaken any kind of hearts and minds efforts. They undermined their own occup...
1/ Following up on yesterday's thread about the Russian army detaining dozens of its own mobilised soldiers in basement prisons for refusing to fight (see below), relatives of the...
1/ Relatives of mobilised men from Vologda have issued an appeal in a video and on VK for their men to be returned from a "bloody meat grinder" in Ukraine where they were bombed an...
1/ The shiny new "PMC Wagner Center" in St Petersburg (see thread below) has run into trouble with the local authorities. Wagner's owner Yevgeny Prigozhin isn't happy, but unfortun...
1/ Dozens of mobilised Russians are being detained illegally in a network of improvised prisons in occupied territories of Ukraine, where they are being abused and living in terrib...
1/ Volunteers from Russia's republic of Bashkortostan spent weeks living in tents under constant Ukrainian bombardment, with little equipment, scavenged ammunition and officers who...
1/ With winter rapidly approaching, mobilised Russians from Archangelsk are given expired food, rubber boots that won't keep their feet warm, flimsy equipment bags, thin yoga foam...