Chris O reports in Twitter:
Only four out of 91 mobilised Russians lasted a week under HIMARS and shell fire on the front line in eastern Ukraine. On 25 October they were sent to attack the village of Nevs'ke, having been given seven infantry fighting vehicles, of which only two started up on their own, "the rest had to be pushed". Those from the company that remained at the front line (25 people) "stayed in the trenches for a week." Their commander was killed by mortar fire, "they did not know what to do and decided to retreat." After that, the remnants came under HIMARS fire. Four survived.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 worth its weight in gold, and we will recruit new ones instead of you".
The independent Russian news outlet Astra reports that the men were sent to recapture the village of Nevs'ke, about 30 km south-west of Svatove. This happened on 25 October, two days after the Ukrainians took it with heavy reported Russian casualties. "The mobilized men of the 35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade from Aleysk, Altai Krai, who were drafted in late September, have been sent to the front line after two weeks of "useless" training.
On 25 October they were sent to attack the village of Nevs'ke, having been given seven infantry fighting vehicles, of which only two started up on their own, "the rest had to be pushed". On the very first day, two of the three platoons were ambushed and suffered casualties, one of the mobilised men told Astra. The next day they "came across a more prepared ambush, where we were greeted by both equipment and more professional military men."
The commander told them that "they shouldn't be here" [on the front line] and gave the order to retreat. “As the president said, the mobilised will either be in the rear zone or on the 4rd line of defense." About 60 conscripts out of 91, from our interlocutor's company, retreated to Svatove (the rest stayed at the front line). There, in Svatove, they say they were met by the deputy commander of the Central Military District, who gave them two houses to sleep in and said he would "deal with them".
After that, for eight days, "different ranks – from majors to generals – came to the people who refused to return to the front line and intimidated them by saying that "we have only one choice: ... to go to the front line, because there is no time to send you to the prosecutor's office".
From one of the military commanders, the mobilised heard "No man - no problems." “That is, if we die, it will be easier for them." The colonel tells us: “Our equipment is worth its weight in gold, and instead of you we will recruit new ones.” Now the mobilised are in the rear in Luhansk oblast and are demanding that a meeting with the military prosecutor be arranged for them. "They do not send the military prosecutor's office to us, they just intimidate us. They promise to give us a medical examination and training and send us back because we will be supposedly 'ready'."
"Salaries are also calculated differently [from how they should be]. I only got a third of my salary. Some have loans, which they promised to freeze, but they also did not provide credit holidays," says the Astra interlocutor. The mobilised are also afraid to talk about it openly because "yesterday guys from our battalion recorded a video message, and today the military police arrived, handcuffed them in front of everyone and took them away." Those from the company that remained at the front line (about 25 people) "stayed there in the trenches for a week, keeping their heads down." Their commander was killed by mortar fire, "they did not know what to do and also decided to retreat." After that, in the nearest settlement where they reached, the remnants of the company, along with other soldiers, came under HIMARS fire. According to the mobilised man, four people survived from the company. /end
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