Video Shows Evidence Of Mutiny Among Russian Conscripts

About 100 military men who had recently been drafted into the Russian army got off the train in the Belgorod region of Russia, and recorded a video saying that their service conditions were unbearable. They said they were forced to sleep on the ground and ate what they bought themselves. The soldiers refused to follow orders to head south to retake Lyman, a strategic Ukrainian town recently liberated by Kyiv forces.

Russian Telegram channel Sota reports that such acts of revolt within the ranks of mobilized Russians have become more and more frequent. Soldiers recently attacked a lieutenant colonel called them "meat" in the western Russian town of Penza; another incident saw conscripts beat up contract servicemen in Alabin, near Moscow.

How Russia Topped The U.S. As Leading Supplier Of Heavy Weapons To Ukraine

Ukraine’s weapons supply shortage is being eased thanks to all the ammunition left behind by fleeing Russian troops, according to intelligence consulting firm Oryx.

The Wall Street Journal published the findings: “Some Russian pieces of equipment were ready for immediate use, while others are being repaired to return to the front. Tanks, vehicles and guns too damaged to salvage are being cannibalized for spare parts. Crucially, Russia has also left behind large quantities of Soviet-standard artillery shells that had nearly run out in Ukraine.”

Calculating the quantity of Russian arms now in Ukrainian hands, the report estimates that Moscow is now the top supplier of weaponry to Kyiv, ahead of the U.S.

According to Oryx, Ukraine's armed forces captured 460 Russian tanks (Western countries supplied 320), 92 self-propelled guns, 448 infantry fighting vehicles (210 from the West), 195 armored fighting vehicles (40 from the West), and 44 rocket systems (70 from the West).

"We have so many trophies that we don't even know what to do with them," said Ruslan Andreiko, deputy chief of staff of the Carpathian Sech battalion. "We started as an infantry battalion, and now we're becoming a mechanized battalion.”

More Mass Graves Found In Lyman After Liberation

Kyiv-based Hromadskereports that the Ukrainian military continues to find mass graves of civilians buried in the liberated territories. Another 50 graves were found in Lyman.

Residents told Hromadske that people were tortured and executed, and other prisoners were forced to dig their graves.

​OPEC Cuts Oil Production

OPEC stunned energy markets late Wednesday with the announcement of further cuts to oil production, in a move OPEC leader Saudi Arabia says is necessary to curb prices in light of extreme inflation rates and a weaker global economy.

U.S. President Joe Biden has expressed disappointment in the decision “while the global economy is dealing with the continued negative impact” of the war in Ukraine.

​U.S. Intelligence Suspects Ukrainian Involvment In Darya Dugina Murder

U.S. intelligence believes Ukraine was behind the car bomb that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of prominent Russian politician Alexander Dugina. The U.S. did not have knowledge of the plot beforehand, and it is unclear whether it believes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was aware of the plot or authorized it.

Kyiv has denied its involvement in the attack, which was most likely intended to target the father, a Russian ultranationalist and philosopher and an avid supporter of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Miss Crimea Fined Over Pro-Ukrainian Song

Olga Valeyeva, the winner of this year’s Miss Crimea beauty pageant, was fined by Russian authorities after a video showed her singing a patriotic Ukrainian song, state-run TASS news agency reports.

In the video, Valeyeva and a friend are seen singing "Chervona Kalyna," a song that has become a Ukrainian resistance anthem in recent months, according to the Moscow Times.

Valeyeva received a 40,000-ruble ($677) fine while her friend was sentenced to 10 days in prison. Both have since apologized in a video published on the Crimean Interior Ministry's Telegram channel.