​Russians who refuse to fight in Ukraine are being physically abused and forced to record self-incriminating videos, according to a photo and video published by Gulagu.net, founded by human rights activist Volodymyr Osyechkin.

The Russian human rights organization Gulagu.net published, in its opinion, evidence that the employees of the correctional colony no. 4 in the Kaluga region mistreated prisoners who refused to go to war “because of their beliefs and did not agree that other prisoners should be sent to war”, according to independent researcher Chris Owen.

A short video shows a man being urged by a jailer to repeat “louder!” that he rejects the “thieving tradition”, in other words, the very strict thieving code that governs inmates in Russian prisons.

This admission may cause him trouble among the other inmates, as he rejects, albeit under duress, the rules he must follow in prison. The “thieves” (convicts) take it very seriously, Owen notes.

It is also another indication that another wave of prison mobilization is likely to be planned. It is unlikely that the guards would be concerned with this problem unless they had a good reason to try to get the prisoners to change their minds.

By the way, on December 1, we reported that the independent Russian news platform SOTA, according to independent researcher Chris Owen, wrote that non-Russian citizens in the Russian city of Cheleabinsk are receiving mobilization orders, despite the fact that partial mobilization has ended and despite the fact that that they do not have Russian passports or even residence permits, which makes them ineligible.

Thus, SOTA informs that the management of the sugar factory in Cheleabinsk handed over mobilization summons to the employees of the sugar factory in Cheleabinsk with a request to appear at the military commissariat today (December 1).

Among those who received summonses were citizens of Belarus and Uzbekistan, who, as SOTA notes, do not have “Russian passports and even residence permits.”

At the same time, it is known that Wagner’s mercenary group recruited from prisons before the end of the mobilization announced by Putin.

The effort was part of an effort by Moscow’s military authorities to replenish depleted forces fighting in Ukraine during a “special military operation” launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced on November 28 that the “partial mobilization” announced in September had ended, and the mobilization plan of 300,000 reservists had been achieved.

Nevertheless, Russian officials are continuing their covert mobilization even as fall conscription continues, likely to further strain Russia’s already overburdened military formation apparatus in a way that will harm both recruits and conscripts, Institute for the Study of War ( ISW) shows in the last estimate.

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