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Twitter Support Asked About Verified Russian Group in Occupied Crimea
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DNR soldiers blame Russia for war
He quotes one DNR soldier telling him, "We somehow managed to live these eight years without you – we would have kept on living." The man was a forcibly recruited prisoner. This suggests the DNR soldiers blame Russia for dragging them into the current war.
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Ukrainian soldiers sent to die without protection
In this video, they say they have been told directly by their officers that they are 'expendable' and will only return home if injured. They are being sent to 'slaughter' 'without cover, without escort'.
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Russian soldiers victims of their commanders
27/ One soldier says his DNR commander told him, "Go and die." The mobilised men also speak of clashes between Russians and 'DNRovites'. The men in the video above say that their DNR officers machine-gunned the house where they were sheltering to drive them forward into combat.
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Conséquences pratiques pour les hommes sans registres de guerre
23/ This has important practical consequences for the men. Without proper records, they are 'off the books'. There's no record of their war service, so they can't get a combatant's certificate that would entitle them to a pension and veteran's privileges after the war.
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Losses condemnation: Russian defense posts and unpaid victims
They can’t get leave, they may not be able to get paid, their relatives will probably not be compensated if they die. Conveniently for the Russian Ministry of Defence, their deaths would be on the casualty rolls of the L/DNR, not Russia. The men naturally don’t want this.
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Documentation issues for mobilized Russians
In several videos, they state that their transfer was not documented and their military IDs were not updated, or were only partially updated. Other mobilized soldiers say they don’t know which unit they belong to or who their commanders are or what ranks they hold.
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Reconstitution of DNR/LNR units by Russian mobilization
21/ Russia has been reconstituting the decimated DNR and LNR units with mobilised Russians. This is mentioned in several of the videos, but as the men complain, it seems to have been done in an underhand and irregular way.
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DNR/LNR units exhausted and combat ineffective by autumn
20/ The DNR and LNR used up their own mobiks rapidly, throwing them into major battles at Mariupol and Severodonetsk with little training and poor weapons. By last autumn, many DNR and LNR units were likely combat ineffective. Ukraine's offensive routed such units.
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First appeal videos by mobilized troops in 2023 (12 words max)
The first wave of appeal videos appeared by mobilized troops in September–October as they were rushed to the front lines to fill gaps torn in Russian defensive lines by Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Kherson offensives. They shared some themes similar to the latest videos.