And once again about vehicles and license plates at the front. We have received the following:

🖋 "After the introduction, within the area of responsibility of the ‘Center’ grouping, of a ban on the use of personal transport in the SMO zone, the military police (MP) together with the Military Automobile Inspectorate (MAI) began seizing servicemen’s vehicles (the legality of these actions remains highly questionable). This measure is paradoxical, given that a significant share of combat tasks — up to 70% — is carried out precisely with the help of personal transport.

The current situation forces us to look for unconventional solutions: concealing the locations of key units by using non-standard uniforms and vehicles without ‘black’ plates. However, here we encounter an absurd contradiction. Personnel, for example UAV crews, are allowed to wear non-standard uniforms, but they are not allowed to move in military vehicles while wearing those same uniforms — MP and MAI patrols record this as a violation with all the ensuing problems. Where is the logic here?

As a result, UAV operators have become targets not only for the enemy, but also for their own inspectors. A critical question arises: how, under such conditions, are logistics and storage units responsible for supply supposed to operate? Unload trucks openly, pre-designating targets for enemy fire? It is also forbidden to move to facilities in civilian vehicles. This creates a vicious circle that makes mission execution practically impossible.

I gave 12 years to the army and wholeheartedly believe in our cause. I managed to gather around me a core of true patriots, people of duty rather than mercenaries. But the current system, its contradictory and reality-detached orders, are methodically killing the last remnants of motivation and faith in us and in our soldiers.

I strongly urge you to give this problem broad publicity. Without resolving it, we continue to fight not only the enemy, but also our own bureaucratic absurdity."

✨ Several sources confirm this information to us. And if what to use to accomplish tasks is the commander’s responsibility (after all, everyone has been provided with what is needed for people to survive and complete missions, right?), then the seizure of personal vehicles is highly questionable, and this should be dealt with by the military prosecutor’s office, not bloggers.

Overall, we do not cease to be surprised at how often the system (not only in the case of vehicles) shows itself to be inflexible with regard to the tasks at hand.

Incidentally, similar cycles of tension over vehicles have long become periodic. And they subside when the front begins to move forward.

Everyone remembers the footage of the entry into what was then still Pokrovsk, and what our forces used to enter it under the cover of fog.

RU POV: According to Dva Majors, in the “Center” grouping zone military police and MAI are seizing servicemen’s personal cars despite up to 70% of tasks relying on them, creating contradictions, logistical deadlocks, and undermining morale - dva_majors