6/ On the orders of the commander they returned to Zmiivka. On 3 November, the commander informed them that they had to go back to Ploshchanka. Most of the mobilised men wrote explanatory statements as to why they would not go back.
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Detained after being disarmed and taken to former children’s camp building.
7/ After that they took away their machine guns and uniforms and took them to Makarove to the building of the former Berezka children's camp …
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Training and deployment of soldiers in Makarove and Zmiivka
On the evening of the same day, they arrived in Makarove in the 'LNR'. They were trained there for three days. On October 7, they were taken to Zmiivka [about 5 km northwest of Svatove, behind the front line]. They dug trenches.
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Mobilized soldiers shelled in an open field for three days without trenches.
5/ On 31 October, shelling began near Ploshchanka [on the front line, 20km south of Svatove] and for the whole three days the mobilised men lay on the ground in a field where there were no trenches, with only automatic rifles, unable to fire. Their vehicle was bombed on the way.
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Russian mobilized held at Berezka camp after retreating from Svatove fighting
2/ The Berezka ("Birch") camp in Makarove, Luhansk oblast has been used for at least a month to hold scores of mobilised Russians who retreated from the fierce fighting around Svatove, according to the wife of one of the prisoners, who is from Sverdlovsk oblast in Russia.
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Illegal prison for mobilised Russians: 90+ held without food or water
1/ Another illegal prison for mobilised Russian soldiers has been identified. At least 90 are reportedly being held without food or water by the Russian army in a children's camp. Separately, the largest known Russian basement-prison for soldiers may have been shut down.
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Lithuania sends artillery ammo to Ukraine
Lithuania sends 155mm ammunition for the Ukrainian artillery. Pic: Arvydas Anušauskas
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9th sanctions package against Russia does not include Belarus
The 9th sanctions package on Russia is slated to be adopted on Dec. 12. According to @RikardJozwiak, it still does not target Belarus.
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Russians cut combat sorties due to air defense threat
The Russians have reduced combat flights of aviation because of a significant threat from Ukrainian air defenses, according to British intelligence.
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Russian planes scheduled to bomb Ukrainian energy infrastructure again
Some sources report that this morning planes based on Engels and Ryazan air fields were scheduled to bomb Ukrainian energy infrastructure yet again.