Two videos and a photo will show very harsh conditions in a mobilization camp in Russia. In a video published in November, a man who bears a strong resemblance to Russian Major General Kirill Kulakov is confronted and scolded by his own soldiers. – You must answer our questions, says a soldier in the video. – It is your fault! says another. – Go to hell, bastard general! shouts a man right in Kulakov’s face. news has verified the videos and can place the protests in the big city of Kazan, east of Moscow. At the same time, news finds no signs that the videos are not genuine. Several Russian soldiers get right up in the general’s face. – Go to hell, bastard general! shouts a man to Kulakov. Photo: Twitter According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Kirill Kulakov is a major general and head of the military command school in Kazan. Several Russian media, including the TV channel RBC and the online newspaper 116.ru, have also reported on unrest at mobilization camps in the area. The videos have been shared by pro-Ukrainian sources on Twitter, including by the user @wartranslated on November 4. An article from the Tatar-Inform news agency mentions a video on the same day that the Ukrainian sources published it. The agency confirms that the soldiers had complaints. These complaints must have been related to deprivation of liberty, poor material and facilities. President of Tatarstan Minnikhanov looks at a tray of food at a mobilization camp in Kazan on November 7. Showers at the mobilization center in Kazan. Beds in the camp inside the main building. The inside of the tents is heated with a wood stove. According to the article in Tatar-Inform, Deputy Prime Minister of Tatarstan, Rustam Nigmatullin, went to the camp to listen to the soldiers’ concerns. Several other photos from the Tatarstan presidential office show Major General Kulakov giving the republic’s president Rustam Minnikhanov a tour of the camp. Pictures from the presidential office of the Republic of Tatarstan show Kulakov giving President Rustam Minnikhanov a tour. Photo: SCREEN DUMP AND GRAPHICS news / THE PRESIDENT IN TATARSTAN’S OFFICE In these pictures you can see the same type of tent as in the video where the major-general gets slapped. Kulakov also wears the same type of clothing. Among other things, he goes dressed in a gray usjanka hat with a white star in an orange circle. He also wears a military outfit with two black epaulettes with a simple gold colored star on each. Several of the tents in the photos from the presidential office in Tatarstan are identical to the tents in the military camp where Major General Kulakov is scolded by the soldiers. Photo: SCREEN DUMP AND GRAPHICS news / THE PRESIDENT IN TATARSTAN’S OFFICE No Sunday school – There have been such videos of Russian soldiers who are dissatisfied with their service conditions since the start of the mobilization, explains Una Hakvåg. She is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Defense Research Institute (FFI), and specializes in Russian defense and security policy. Una Hakvåg has written several research articles about conditions in the Russian armed forces. Photo: Norwegian Defense Research Institute (FFI) – The fact that such protests occur does not necessarily mean that they are dissatisfied with being mobilized, says Hakvåg. She is not too surprised that the soldiers express displeasure. – The Russian defense is no Sunday school. The soldiers have very poor service conditions and often have to do gruesome tasks. Sometimes there are big fights between the soldiers. In a sense, this is quite expected. At the same time, it is clear that it is an expression of frustration. Said to have left the camp in protest The tension at the camp may have reached breaking point. A video published in early December shows what are believed to be dozens of soldiers leaving the camp in Kazan in protest. – Handsome, shouts a man as the soldiers march out of the camp. Dozens of Russian soldiers leave a military camp outside Kazan. According to several Telegram channels and Twitter users, the images show soldiers leaving the camp in protest over not being allowed to visit their families and not being paid salaries. Official Russian sources deny this. In the video, you can see a small white service building with a blue stripe painted around the middle of the building. This type of building can also be seen outside the Kazan Expo in an image from Google Streetview from April 2021. news has verified the location of the video of the soldiers leaving a military camp for the airport outside the big city of Kazan. The guard booth with the blue stripe the soldiers pass is identical to several guard booths at the airport. Photo: @wartranslated / Twitter / Google Streetview / news The control tower at the airport in Kazan is also visible in the video of the Russian soldiers. Photo: @WARTRANSLATED / TWITTER / GOOGLE STREETVIEW / news In addition, there is a building in the background of the video that could be the control tower of the airport in Kazan, which is located directly opposite the Kazan Expo. news has examined satellite images of the area around Kazan. From these pictures, it becomes clear that two of the buildings on the north side of the exhibition hall are identical to the buildings in the videos. It is therefore likely that the video was filmed in this area. The big city of Kazan is located in the Republic of Tatarstan, about 900 kilometers east of Moscow. the city has a population of approximately 4 million inhabitants. Unpopular Mobilization Kazan is located in the Republic of Tatarstan, about 900 kilometers east of Moscow. Information in the videos suggests that they were filmed at the mobilization camp at the Kazan Expo. The Kazan expo is said to have been requisitioned by the Russian army to mobilize soldiers. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on September 21 that the country was starting a partial mobilization of 300,000 soldiers. According to Putin himself, 50,000 of these had already arrived in Ukraine at the beginning of November. At the same time, there are constant reports of enlisted soldiers who oppose the mobilization. Russian media: “Was in a hurry” An article from Tatar-Inform also claims that the video of soldiers leaving the mobilization camp is real. However, the news agency claims that the soldiers were only “in a hurry” to meet their families and did not have time to check in at the exit. The soldiers must have been reminded of this and went back to go through an ordinary check-out of the camp, writes the agency. At the end of the video, more people start shouting, and some of the soldiers run back towards the entrance. Tatar-Inform claims that the video has been spread by Ukrainian actors “to destabilize the situation” in Russia. These cages will be used to keep drunken soldiers locked up at the Kazan Expo, according to online newspaper 116.ru. Beds in Kazan Expo photographed during the visit of the President of Tatarstan. Note the flag, the floor covering, the type of lighting and the details of the ceiling. The inside of the Kazan Expo on Google Streetview. Both the floor covering, the type of light, steel fixture and details in the ceiling match those in the photo of the cage from 116.ru. Improvised drunken arrest Another photo from the camp is supposed to show soldiers sitting in a cage. According to the website 116.ru, the cage will be used to keep track of drunken soldiers. The interior of the building matches publicly available photos of the interior of the Kazan Expo. 116.ru also writes on Sunday that the wife of a mobilized soldier has not been able to get her husband’s wages paid for September and October.
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