#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #RUSSIA #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Russia, AIT: Is anti-war sentiment on the rise? (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Against the backdrop of the bloody massacre of "modern Verdun" near Bakhmut, an

increasing number of Russian and Ukrainian workers, who are dressed in military
uniforms, do not want to die and kill for the interests of capitalists and
politicians. In the cities and villages of Ukraine, wild scenes of raids on
"conscripts" are unfolding; videos of the forced service of subpoenas made the
rounds on social media. In various cities of Russia, unknown people continue to
set fire to military registration and enlistment offices. There are a lot of
reports that more and more soldiers on both sides want to leave the front. ----
Reports of this kind of defiance are sketchy and unofficial, so that it is
impossible to get a complete picture, just as it is impossible to verify some of
them.
RUSSIAN SIDE
- At the end of December, 8 Russian mobilized from the Kaliningrad region left
the war zone in the Lugansk region and went to the Moscow region to hand over
their weapons. They were detained in Podolsk and sent to one of the military
units to await the decision of military investigators
(https://news.ru/regions/baza-v-podmoskove-zaderzhany-vosem-mobilizovannyh/)

- In January, in the Lipetsk region, mobilized Dmitry Perov, who had deserted
from the combat zone and returned to his mother in Voronezh, was shot dead during
arrest (https://ura.news/news/1052619283)

- A group of people mobilized into reconnaissance from the Vladimir, Oryol and
Lipetsk regions refused to fight in the Lugansk region. Relatives claim that they
were placed in a forest belt, threatened and denied food. Relatives of the
soldiers recorded an appeal to the president demanding that their relatives be
sent to the rear and given leave. Waiting for the arrival of the military
prosecutor's office (https://vk.com/wall137571485_3166)

- According to the Telegram channel "People of Baikal", a group of mobilized from
the Irkutsk region, who, according to them, are forced to participate in
hostilities instead of the promised guard, recorded an appeal to the president,
defense minister and governor, demanding to withdraw them from the front (https:
//baikal-journal.ru/2023/02/09/moj-brat-napisal-chto-ih-perekupili-i-chto-oni-teper-budut-shturmovikami/)

- In Zelenograd, on January 30, the FSB arrested Lieutenant Vadim V., who
arbitrarily left a military unit in Rossosh (Voronezh Region), taking a pistol
with him (https://www.netall.ru/incidents/news/1261154.html)

- Since January 22, the military authorities have been looking for the mobilized
Denis D., who apparently deserted from a military unit in the Rovno district of
the Belgorod region
(https://kartoteka.io/news/27542-v_mockve_ishchut_mobilizovannogo_sbehavshego_s_svo)

- A group of mobilized from Samara as part of the 1444th regiment, who were in
the Donetsk region, and then transferred to the Rostov and Kursk regions,
recorded an appeal to the president demanding to return them home
(https://zasekin.ru/news/20338-poyavilos-
obrashchenie-lyudey-v-forme-kotorie-predstavilis-samarskimi-mobilizovannimi)

- On February 5, six mobilized people fled in the Voronezh region, getting off
the train
(https://vestivrn.ru/news/2023/02/05/baza-shestero-mobilizovannykh-sbezhali-v-voronezhskoi-oblasti)

- On February 8, a 42-year-old conscript fled from a unit in the Luhansk region,
taking a machine gun with him. He told his colleagues that he was going home

- Pro-government war correspondent Tatarsky from Donetsk admitted that "mobilized
from one region", "almost countrymen", "refuse to go into battle", which disrupts
the operation (t.me/vladlentatarsky/19178)

- On February 12, the former Donetsk field commander Strelkov admitted that
"following the Tuva battalion, after complaints to Kazan, the Tatarstan volunteer
battalion was removed and sent home." The same appeals to governors demanding to
be removed from the front go to "Russian" regions
(https://lentafeed.com/@strelkovii/3957/)

- Detailed data on sentences handed down for crimes against military service
(Chapter 33 of the Criminal Code) were removed from the statistics of the
Judicial Department at the Supreme Court of Russia, Mediazona drew attention.
Such crimes include, for example, desertion, unauthorized abandonment of a unit
and failure to comply with an order. The Judicial Department, in response to a
request from Mediazona to explain the disappearance of some of the statistics,
said that "the placement of statistical information on the activities of courts
and criminal records" is carried out, among other things, in accordance with the
order of the Ministry of Defense (it contains a list of 689 items specifying
which data relate to official secret, the order was issued on January 17, 2022)
and the FSB order on information that "when received by foreign sources, can be
used against the security of the Russian Federation" (dated November 4, 2022).
 From the data published by the department before the removal of some of the
statistics, it followed that the most popular article among crimes against
military service was the 337th - unauthorized abandonment of the unit. And the
number of sentences under it in 2022 increased compared to the previous ones.

Mediazona said that even before the announcement of mobilization, they began to
actively recruit military refuseniks who did not want to go to Ukraine or return
there (https://zona.media/news/2023/02/13/stat).

- Created in 2014 in Petekrburg, the "Movement of Conscious Objectors to Military
Service" (DSO) has, according to its own data, 55,000 subscribers. It helps
legally evade being sent to the front for reasons of conscience (for example, by
obtaining an alternative civil service) or return home illegally mobilized or
those who want to terminate the contract. "All these soldiers from one side and
the other should have just taken and left the battlefield, but they didn't. Any
war ends with a truce sooner or later. Why so many corpses, so much grief and
suffering, if in any case you have to negotiate?" - says DSO volunteer Alena
(https://www.severreal.org/a/volontery-spasayut-muzhchin-ot-voyny/32264167.html)

FROM THE UKRAINIAN SIDE

- There were Ukrainian units near Soledar that left the front line. This was
announced by the (now former) adviser to the Office of the President Arestovich
on the air every night. According to him, during the entire defense of the city
there were "a sufficient number" of refuseniks who declared that they "cannot
fight in this terrible war." "Perhaps we will see fraternization there this
year?" asks the Black Book of Capitalism, recalling similar stories from the
Russian side (https://t.me/black_book_of_capitalism/5633)

- Soldiers of the Poltava 116th terrorist defense brigade in the Bakhmut
direction recorded an appeal to the president and commander-in-chief, declaring
that they were being sent to be slaughtered. Then their relatives turned to the
authorities, urging them to return the brigade to their place of permanent
deployment and provide medical assistance. Moreover, the territorial defense
units were created to patrol the streets and serve at checkpoints, but in the
summer they began to be thrown into the thick of Donbass
(https://t.me/black_book_of_capitalism/5941?single)

   - Since the beginning of this year, the number of cases of the use of force
during the delivery of subpoenas has sharply increased in Ukraine. On the footage
from Odessa, you can see that an ambulance was used there for such raids. Natalya
Gumenyuk, spokesman for the Yug Operational Command, says: "It has no medical
equipment, it was handed over for mobilization as a vehicle. Yes, this negatively
affects the image. responsibility." A video with a fight came from the
Novomirgorodsky district of the Kirovograd region, on the last one - an attempt
to remove a conscript from a transport in Transcarpathia. The client was beaten
off by women. (https://t.me/black_book_of_capitalism/5847)

- A resident of the Rivne region was convicted a week ago for attacking military
enlistment office workers with a scythe because of a summons to his brother. As
stated in the verdict, in the village of Krasnoselye, Goshchansky district, the
military had to shoot back from an aggressive man who attacked them with a
scythe. He tried to seriously injure the lieutenant, which caused him to shoot
three times in the air. Only then did the attacker start to run away. At the
trial, the defendant stated that he attacked the employees of the military
registration and enlistment office, because it seemed to him that they entered
his yard without permission. That's why I wanted to kick them out. The man was
sentenced to 3 years probation (https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/108490556).
That's really it: "sloped"!

- A video is circulating on social networks, which shows how women in the west of
Ukraine do not let military enlistment office employees into their village,
saving their men from the war.

- According to the site "Assembly" created by Kharkiv anarchists, the Podolsk and
Dniprovsky district state administrations of Kiev appealed to the heads of state
bodies, enterprises, institutions and organizations with a request to provide the
Kiev city territorial recruitment center (military registration and enlistment
office) with the data of employees subject to mobilization by January 31, and
ensure their arrival at the district recruiting centers.

- The situation in Kharkiv:

In Kharkov, the working class is even more so caught in the crossfire. On the one
hand, in order not to bother catching victims on the street, it is easier to
simply come to any operating enterprise and write out subpoenas to anyone you
want, or ask the authorities to provide lists. At the same time, many people have
been mobilized from large enterprises for a long time, and at small and
medium-sized enterprises, many have not been formalized, so street raids also do
not stop.

"Yesterday, five of us were taken away from the enterprise, near the Shevchenko
plant. It didn't work out normally to carol at the ATB, at the market and at the
crossroads, we went to the enterprises. At the place of work, everything is
legal, - the sources of the "Assembly" told on January 12. "So far, these boys
have been sent for a medical examination, although they are against it - those
who wanted to serve from our enterprise are already serving, some since February."

On January 25, already completed summonses for employees aged 30-50 were brought
to the personnel department of the Yuzhkabel plant.

Earlier, they came to the personnel department at Ipris-Profil LLC and took data
on all male employees from 18 to 60.

At the bearing plant (HARP), where 250 people are now left, they asked for lists
for reservations, and brought more than 100 summonses.

Witnesses told about the raid at "Agromol" on Rogan: "There are 6 olives, 2
patrols, and a little further Rogan meat processing plant the same story, in a
group near the checkpoint, to everyone who passes by. Then they began to walk
along the industrial zone between the brewery and the meat-packing plant."
Recently they came to the tile factory, handing out summonses to everyone who was
on the shift.

The press service of Kharkivgaz on January 13 reported on Facebook that the
children of 30 mobilized colleagues received gifts from the company. Therefore,
even the status of critical infrastructure workers did not save their parents
from being drafted...

On January 25, ten people were taken from the Khladoprom factory, and the next
day 10 more were "stuffed into the bus like a flock of sheep".

On January 26, 25 people were accepted at the Svet Shakhtera plant and there was
a plan for another 75. Only those who have already served, as in other factories.
And when they pass the medical examination, then on the first call to the front.
This can happen in a week or a month. First they gave the peasants a reservation,
then they took it off." It is also reported that employees of the picking center
have already been at this production site and have now taken away those they need.

Summons are regularly handed out at the entrance to Turboatom. The head of the
legal department had a reservation, but on January 20 he received a summons at
the checkpoint: "They said, they say, the reservation is not like that, even
though he was slowed down a hundred times both in the subway and on the street. A
week later I went to the military enlistment office, I didn't worry at all. And
there no one listened to anything, nor did they open the computer, on Monday the
30th for a medical examination. Mayhem!" Moreover, it was registered in the
Kievsky district, and it was accepted and issued in Nemyshlyansky.

"There is information that for all enterprises in Kharkov they told the personnel
department to prepare lists of men, without whom the enterprise will die, and
without whom it will continue to work, and 20% of the total number of men at the
enterprise will be mobilized. Personnel officers from many large enterprises were
gathered in the TCC and this is what they announced. So to speak, infa from the
first mouth. For those who do not file by the 20th of this month, there will be a
small fine and a high-profile raid on the enterprise, which we have already begun
to see. They will look at all the enterprises of the city, where more than 50
people are employed. The personnel department will call and they will hand over
there already filled ones, without the military, since the enterprise will sign
for them. Whether they will go for smaller ones, time will tell," a source from
one of the large private Kharkiv companies said on January 27
(https://assembly.org.ua/harkovskie-voenkomy-usilivayut-mobilizacziyu-s-predpriyatij-pomimo-razdachi-povestok-
na-uliczah/)

- Another Ukrainian conscript almost died trying to escape from the country. On
the evening of January 5, he made his way to Romania from Transcarpathia, but due
to darkness and ignorance of the area, he fell into a 10-meter cliff when he
began to run away from the border guards of the Mukachevo detachment, who were
trying to detain him. They pulled him out. In total, over the past year,
according to the border service, while trying to illegally cross the border, 12
thousand Ukrainian men were rounded up, of which 15 died: three in the rivers,
the rest just in the mountains (https://t.me/black_book_of_capitalism/5566)

- Anarchists from the "Assembly" comment on the latest sentences handed down to
residents of the city and the region in connection with attempts to avoid
mobilization. They write: "It can be said that all the convicts became victims of
their own indifference in one form or another. If you don't want to serve, you
don't have to go to the medical examination, then everything will be limited to
an administrative fine. (...) The most reliable option, of course, is simply to
avoid medical treatment. I saw that they were handing out subpoenas - I crossed
to the other side of the road, lay down behind the curb, crawled under parked
cars, left the yards. or somewhere else in the middle of the city - after the
resonance of the videos with the kidnapping of conscripts in Odessa, the courage
of the rear heroes seems to have diminished, it's easier for them to find another
client than to swing with someone who resists.Just don't call the cops, who, on
the contrary, will help in the TCC, where you can pass doctors by the hand in 10
minutes. When the pans are fighting, the main thing for their "living resource"
is not to win - the main thing is not to participate in this!
(https://assembly.org.ua/uklonenie-ot-mobilizaczii-i-smezhnye-veshhi-5-zimnih-prigovorov/))

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