Yes, although the donations are usually rather material than financial. In the Russians military the soldiers must buy the bulk of their own ammo with their own money, and most of the food, vehicles and fuel come from private donors.
You put it well: it’s basically a charity.
He’s one of the most important military bloggers in the Russia.
The Russian military could never function without getting the huge amount of donations they get from the common folk. And Fighterbomber is one of the most efficient tools for that. If they can get Fighterbomber thrown to the front, the Russian military will have less resources to play with, and the war will end sooner.
He is also one of the people who has been demanding for the Russia to use more violence against Ukrainians, being angry that Putin “is being too kind towards Ukrainians”(!)
That means, he absolutely deserves all the shit that possibly can land on his face.
Only a specific subtype of people will answer a poll by Meduza. And those are not the ones that are pro-Putin.
How? In saying that this is not something that has to do with race or anything, but about an intentional goal of education?
They’re essentially telling that if you grow up with the Russian school system, you end up the way Russians are. Regardless of your nationality. Or, if you grow up watching Russian “news”, you also end up weird.
But you can perfectly well be a speaker of Russian language but behave like any human being: 20 million of Ukrainians are that way. If there was a “Russian race” that is “genetically unable” to behave normally, Ukraine would not look the way it does. They refuse to watch Russia’s news, and therefore they are completely decent people.
The video even explicitly says that there is no DNA, there are no genetics that cause this.
What on Earth do you interpret as racist here?
The Lithuanian history of Ukraine did change a LOT though!
Heh, really puts the “len” in “Leningrad” regarding people’s motivation to fix their country :D
Happens to be Russian and mean laziness.
Heroiam slava 💛💙
I wonder how this works… Apparently there’s a code you can give the drone, but it requires you to approach close by to it?
I wonder how complex the system is. It would make sense for the code to be specific to each drone. Something like, send signal to get the drone’s ID, ask ZSU to generate the self-destruct code for that drone unit, transmit received code. Or maybe it’s something whole different.
About PTSD:
Some 70 000 Soviet soldiers returned from the front in Afghanistan in late 1980’s. They are what caused the mafia mayhem of the 1990’s in the Russia.
Now there will be about 700 000 soldiers returning, to a country half the population of 1991 Soviet Union. The 1990’s will look like a walk in a park.
It will be an absolute mayhem. PTSD is a horrible thing, also for the society.
Ukraine’s drones have enough range to just fly over SPb and then along the Baltic Sea. This could also explain why there was a military drone flying in the airspace over Helsinki just a while ago. Maybe the Russia managed to direct it off course when it was on the way to Kaliningrad?
But, another possible scenario is indeed that they were launched from a container on some cargo ship. It’s not necessarily possible for the Russia to find out what ship was used.
This is the reason I always write “the Russia”, never just “Russia”. It’s an artificial construct and if you read its history, it’s unclear where it really begins or ends. A very weird thing that it even has some thing such as a capital!
I wouldn’t say you can translate razjebat’ as to destroy. A better translation would be fucked up or something like that. It doesn’t mean that everything got destroyed. It means that a lot of explosions happened in various places of the city’s downtown.
Lobnja is a northen suburb of Moscow. I wonder if that’s where Russian AD missiles had hit civilian houses?
Don’t worry, they’ll produce a tank in the coming days. Typically new ones get ready at a pace of a couple tanks per week.
I would guess that the oil in all of the “intact” tanks is very hot as well. Oil is very good in retaining heat, after all.
Hot oil is much, much easier to set on fire than cooler oil.
810 is surprisingly low by contemporary standards. Has the Russia ended its offensive?
They are used for launching certain types of missiles that cannot be launched in any other manner. Also, unless they are small enough to fit in the canal network, they’d have to pass through Istanbul, and that route is currently blocked from warships.
I like it how the map essentially says “we cannot find anything proper to complain about Italy.”