"The UN Security Council was created as the world's most powerful platform for decisions and actions. Therefore, it must give a clear assessment of the actions of the terrorist state," Zelensky said.

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According to the sister of the unnamed mobilized man, he is disappointed with the army. He told her: "Here, you can only survive if they teach me how to face a tank with just one assault rifle."

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Another mobilised man being held at Zaitseve says they are being pressured by agitators (i.e., political officers), prosecutors, and interrogators… they threaten with deadlines and loss of salaries.

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19/ Nikolai did not know where the men were being taken, but presumes they were being forced back to the front line. He says the imprisoned soldiers were being "humiliated, intimidated, they were fed once a day, and on weekends they were not fed at all."

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17/ The mobilised men petitioned the army to transport them to a safe place, provide them with medical and psychological assistance, and enable them to rest, but this seems to have met with no response from their captors.

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16/ Almost all of the men's possessions, money and phones were stolen by their guards, but one man managed to hold onto his phone and cash. The men negotiated with (i.e. likely bribed) the FSB guards to buy and bring them food.

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On 10 November, the military police arrived with a man named Yarovoy, who shouted obscenities at the men before taking them away to be imprisoned without food or water. All of them were suffering from respiratory illnesses and pleaded in vain for medical treatment.

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14/ They were made to stay in the forest for 5 days, taking shelter at night in an abandoned house. They were given no provisions but were able to obtain food and water from local residents, whom they paid using money transferred to their phones by relatives.

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The mobilised men agreed to testify before the Investigative Committee – Russia's main federal investigating authority – and stated they were ready to confirm they were unfit for combat due to poor training and lack of equipment. Some did not even have identification tags.

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9/ This is not surprising, given that another man who served with Nikolai says that his entire training comprised being given two clips of ammunition at the Valuyki range in Russia and being told to fire it. Training for many mobiks seems to have been minimal.

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