Gunshots, dungeons, screams: mobilization newsletter

80,000 in mobilization dungeons: kill the father and the son. Shoot the draft-dodgers 'US cop style'. Diabetics, schizophrenics, and autists mobilized daily

This week I’ll be releasing a range of posts about the extortion, corruption and violence endemic to Ukraine’s army. They continue last week’s post explaining why the numerically larger Ukrainian army is constantly losing territory to the smaller Russian army - the difference is qualitative, one of motivation.

Today’s topics:

• How mobilization officers tried to set a draft-dodger alight

• How nationalist thought-leaders argue that a better solution would have been to shoot the draft-dodger ‘rats’ - US-style.

• How neoliberal and ultranationalist ideologues agree the state owes nothing to its citizens, but they should give up their lives for it

• Video emerges of a father killed in a mobilization dungeon as he tried to save his son.

• Videos of the massive prison system for mobilized men - here they can enjoy initiation to the army through extortion and beatings

• Diabetics, schizophrenics, and autists mobilized to the army daily. A Ukrainian parliamentarian working on the issue describes how it happens

• A video of an intellectually disabled man mobilized, sent straight to the front, and captured by the Russians