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The Russian military shows the corpses of Ukrainian soldiers and says that the Russian side is ready to hand over the bodies of the fallen to Ukraine. The video was taken a couple of months ago or so.
Probably Bakhmut, Ukraine.
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Hows the war going? Any drastic milestones? Still no end in sight?
Everything will be decided by the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It will decide the fate of Russia as well.
I’m glad you’re here, it’s nice to talk to you.
Oh so it’s the beggining of the end? That’s a pleasant surprise if that’s true, because I’ve seen some headlines saying “Ukraine conflict not ending any time soon” etc.
Wonder how the surviving Wagner mercs, the ex-prisoner grouping, will reintergrate into civilian life. Not only were they violent criminals, the worst kinds, in prison for years and already changed mentally, now they have been let out and the first thing they get to experience is modern warfare. It wouldn’t surprise me if they went straight back to prison or had a couple of big “group accidents” on the frontlines after it’s all said and done, if the government actually cared one bit about the people.
And yeah, likewise. I have a degree of respect for you because you’re realistic and don’t engage in wishful thinking. Honestly I took a break from gore and negative shit news of any kind for a while. A month or so I think. I think it negatively affects a person no matter how “desensitized” they are. I’ve read how cortisol and andrenaline are released when consuming violent content, because some part of our reptilian brain still interprets the data as if we are there ourselves.
I would estimate the chances of winning the spring-summer battle at 8/2 in favor of Ukraine. Zaluzhny received almost 2 times more weapons from the West than he expected.
As for the former Wagner mercenaries, what is happening is what should be happening. After returning from the front, these guys go to rob and rape.
It cannot be said that this is widespread, but not a week passes without a message in the media that the former mercenary Wagner committed a crime.
The last such case:
The dude was in jail for killing his wife. He enlisted in Wagner and died. He was brought in a closed coffin and buried with honors.
What was the surprise of the police when this dude was arrested for a robbery in St. Petersburg.
It turns out that the dude took the tokens and documents of his murdered comrade and then deserted.
Criminals – people who are already psychologically prone crime and violence, now turned wanton mercenaries (Wagner, out of all PMCs, who already have a history of torture and lack of rules of engagement) with combat trauma, let back home amongst their people. Every robbed store, raped woman / kid, damaged property, etc, families and direct victims increasing in contempt for Putin and his squad of cronies.
This just brings us back to revolution. It’s demoralizing living in a corrupt kleptocratic country run by a mob. Psychologically, it disarms you and teaches the people collective “learned helplesness”, a phenomenon where a person is stripped from hope and will to act, reluctantly and quietly settling in a position of defeat. Studies found a correlation between perception of corruption in one’s host country to depression and other negative psychological markers. This can only tank other performance metrics, from the individual scale to the collective. It makes people anxious and uncertain about the future.
But then again, we humans are wretched things. It’s in our blood to kill, opress and take. Sometimes I think, the general populace of a country doesn’t gather around, arm up and attempt a revolution not because they think “I really want justice to prevail and the criminals to be punished, but I just don’t have the means yet!”, but because they think “So, our government is corrupt..? Well, if I was among them, I would be stealing too…”.
The people are rotten themselves
The problem is that most Russians are happy with everything. At least for now.
A couple of months ago, I was talking to an old friend of mine. His words were something like this: “Yes, I understand that there is corruption in Russia, yes, I understand that war is bad. But everything is fine in my life.”
By Russian standards, he earns well, he has two children, two apartments, a mortgage. The man has taken place, he has nothing to change in life.
And there are quite a few of them. The point is not some kind of hopelessness, but the fact that people do not want to do something because they are satisfied with the way they live. This is reminiscent of a joke about two dung beetles: “Why do we live in shit? Because this is our homeland.”
But the situation in Russia is very dangerous. In the event of a weakening of the central government, and it will inevitably happen, everything can end in failure.
In addition to Wagner in Russia, there are about 10 more paramilitary groups, PMCs, all kinds of ultra-fascist associations not controlled by the state.
Moreover, they were created with the tacit consent or even encouraged by the authorities.
There is a chance that these guys will make an all-against-all war.
Exactly right as to why people can’t be bothered. They’re already comfortable, and none of the shit happening affects them too directly, not yet at least. That’s why chaos is a perfect environment for revolutions.
Do you mean civil war in Russia? How big are these groups? Are they unified or oriented towards a common goal? Probably not. Doubt this will lead to anything, didn’t read much about this
Yes, I mean the civil war.
The largest group is of course Wagner. Only in Ukraine there are about 50,000 of them. They are armed with tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and aircraft.
These people obey only Prigogine.
The number of fighters in other PMCs is not known, but they all have different subordination. For example, PMC Potok is a division that is subordinate to Gazprom Corporation.
There are also regional battalions of the “Akhmat” type of the head of Chechnya, Kadyrov.
They are united by a sense of patriotism, which each leader of such a group understands differently.
Basically, these are people with imperial and fascist views.
Right, I see. Didn’t know Gazprom had a fucking private army. Wagner I know somewhat. Kadyrovites too.
Still, this reeks of a big nothingburger. From what I’ve read and based on the SSU intercepts, they all seem in a big clusterfuck disarray. Not much can be predicted without a more detailed picture of the whole situation. What happens once the war ends? Do the heads of Russia (including Prigozhin) get tried for warcrimes? Do they disappear? Who stays? Who dies? Whats the West’s final goal here? How much reparations will Russia have to pay? How much territory do they get to keep, if any? Who will the PMCs be warring against, the Russian people? What is their final goal, a coup d’état? An imperial and fascist government is already in place, except they haven’t been very imperial because the country simply doesn’t have the means. West on one side, China on the other. The problem is this whole myth of big bad Russia, where exceptations are too high, and when reality doesn’t align, there’s this frustration and what not, blaming the West, blaming this and that. Russia is exactly where it deserves to be
PMCs have a higher motivation than regular units. Russia owes some of its success to PMCs. For example, the capture of Soledar.
It’s not about the territories that can control PMCs, but about what 50-100 thousand armed men will do if the central government is weakened.
The war will most likely end on Ukraine’s terms – restoration within the 1991 borders.
The West has set a goal – the overthrow of the Putin regime.
If Ukraine wins, Putin will lose legitimacy. But “without Putin there is no Russia” (C). That Russia, which now will definitely not exist without Putin.
In this case, the central government will weaken and one of the scenarios I proposed above. All against all.
Ultra-fascist organizations will call people to protest, probably the liberal opposition will try to do the same.
At this time, the entry into the game of PMCs is quite realistic. And on whose side they will act is not known, but certainly not on the side of the liberal opposition.
With a high degree of probability, a coup will occur and a military junta will come to power.
But there may be a softer option.
In this case, Putin leaves the presidency “for health reasons”, and more negotiable people come to power.
Someone along with Putin will be sacrificed, the same Prigozhin and Strelkov-Girkin, Ukraine receives reparations, and Russia is trying to improve its relations with the West.
Well, the third option that I don’t want to talk about is the use of nuclear weapons by Putin.
Russia is unable to defeat Ukraine with conventional weapons. The declaration of the occupied territories as part of Russia gives the right to use nuclear weapons, since in this case we are talking about the “territorial integrity” of the country.
But Putin was warned several times that NATO would intervene in the conflict in this case.
In general, predicting the future is the lot of fortune-tellers and other swindlers.
In Russia, everything can remain unchanged for several decades, and then 2-3 days completely change the face of the country.
Russia declaring the occupied territory as part of Russia is taken as seriously as mickey mouse. They dont need a formal piece of paper to justify nukes, nobody gives a shit about some piece of paper. Just like the circus referendum. Who is this circus show for? The history books probably, not the people of today who know what’s going on. Also, even if ‘justified’, it means nothing if NATO nukes Russia back.
Also, I think Putin disappears somewhere. He may be overambitious but he’s not stupid. Or they cut some deal and he stays in power. He’s an interesting character that guy. It’s not easy juggling all that power
The West has given a clear understanding of what will happen if Russia uses nuclear weapons:
1. Attack on the Black Sea Fleet
2. Attack on the grouping of Russian troops in Ukraine
3. A personal blow to Putin
According to insiders, back in the fall of 2021, when the invasion of Ukraine was being prepared, the use of nuclear weapons was considered seriously.
Recognition of a part of the territory of Ukraine as the territory of Russia formally gives the right to use nuclear weapons. This is a “violation of the territorial integrity of the country.” The use of nuclear weapons in this case fits into the doctrine of the use of nuclear weapons.
I wouldn’t discount it.
Ha, you’re talking about a man putting his feces in a suitcase!
I’m not kidding. When Putin leaves the country, a special person walks with him, who puts his feces in a suitcase so that someone cannot use the biomaterial.
Putin does not use the Internet and mobile communications, he is so out of touch with reality that he does not quite understand what is happening.
You say he’s not stupid, but he sometimes says things that raise questions about his mental health.
“Inflation is good, because now a dollar can buy more rubles.”
This is the most harmless example of his statements.
He imagines himself to be a great geopolitician, but he has the psychology of a stupid street hooligan. That’s how he was as a child, and that’s how he’s stayed.
The West hasn’t fought a conventional war since World War 2. It was always assymetrical war against guerillas and terrorists and what not. It’d be interesting to see how competent the Western generals and commanders really are, against a modern combatant, with clear targets that even give off IR signatures for fuck sake.
Also, not so easy flying about and bombing the shit out of everything with modern AA. S400s, Tunguskas, lying about everywhere. You may say I am overestimating your military again, but let me remind you that the US failed to achieve shit in Vietnam, a bunch of guerilla peasants. That’s the only NATO country worth anything, and perhaps UK, and the rest are a bunch of pussy pacifists. The numbers don’t mean shit if they’re not willing to fight. You know the saying “a wet man does not fear the rain”. Russia is wet already, and hell, it had no problem getting wet throughout history, sending thousands of men as cannon fodder in battles. The West is timid when it comes to battles. They fight when only absolutely necessary or when victory appears easy.
So, also, since Russia already knows what NATO will do if they use nukes, what makes them think they won’t just preempt NATO and strike some major population centers? At that point, who gives a fuck about the battalions in Ukraine, or Ukraine for that matter? That’s WW3 the nuclear edition. It’s hard to imagine the gravity of that situation but it’s dire, like gravely serious.
Or, perhaps Russia uses nukes on Ukraine military formations, and NATO engages with conventional weapons only, all 3 points you mentioned above. And that’s the end of it. That’s a possibility too, fuck knows. The problem is not knowing wiht certainty who’s willing to use nukes.
Honestly, the feces in suitcase thing, when I first read it sort of surprised me, but then it’s also not suprising when you think about it more. Have you ever seen the security measures that are undertaken when a president is going to another country, and staying in a hotel for example? The Secret Service goes and checks everything, sets perimeters up, makes absolutely sure no harm can come the president’s way. You wouldn’t believe the lengths they go, serious attention to detail.
My conclusions came from my observations of Putin. The man always seemed very level-headed and carried himself sort very respectfully. He always talks calm, clear and reasonable. That is from interviews, and other vids of him talking, all on Youtube. Are you sure you’re not just blinded by your hate for this guy lol? Joke but I don’t know, you’re probably right, you’re in a way better position to judge that dude
You say everything right. For Russia, 1 million people is acceptable damage; for the West, 100,000 is unacceptable damage.
But the guys from NATO are determined, otherwise they would not give weapons to Ukraine.
You overestimate the power of the Russian army too much.
In February 2017, the Wagner Group contacted the US Army in Syria. The final is so sad that they tried to hush it up in the Russian press.
Ukrainian drones systematically violate the airspace of the Russian Federation, several attacks on military facilities were successful.
The last attack failed, a drone with 17 kg of S-4 flew to kill Putin, but did not fly.
And this is all in the Moscow region where the most powerful air defense.
The Russian army has not been able to defeat the army of Ukraine for a year now, although in February 2022 they threatened to “take Kyiv in 3 days.”
Mobilization is underway in Russia, but there are no successes at the front.
You in the West judge Putin by his speeches to Western audiences. But when Russian investigators begin to look into Putin’s domestic public appearances, a very different picture emerges.
This man is paranoid about his own people. When Putin goes out into the open air, snipers are on duty on the roofs of houses, and sewer manholes in the place of his stay are welded with electric welding.
It’s not about hatred, but about the objectivity of facts. Putin never meets ordinary people without a 2-week quarantine.
FSO officers are invited as extras for such meetings. The same faces appear in the frames. Today one person portrays a worker at a factory, and tomorrow a wounded soldier.
These cases have been exposed many times. Examples here, here and here.
Now you know something about Putin that is not available to the general public in the West.
What do you say about this person now?
In that case, the Russians oversold their technology and military strength, and I bought into it. The S400 seems impressive on paper and on videos but if the situation is how you say it is, and drones are routinely bombing strongly protected airspace, then God help you all if indeed NATO were to get join the party. Is it the tech, or the trained monkeys operating it? Or both?
I know a bit more about WW2 Soviet tech than modern Russia equipment. The T34 and IS1s and KV1s were quite a success back in the day, I thought this tradition would carry on. Russia’s military is mostly army focused anyway, not much airforce or navy oriented like the Americans, so it surprises me that you’re telling me that the situation is embarassing.
The Putin vids I looked at were actually mostly him talking to his fellow Russians, such as the “Putin handles corruption”, the make-a-wish videos for the sick kids, visiting sick kids in hospitals, interviews with highschoolers, and other shit. My point was, there is no circus and celeb-gossip like with lets say the US political scene. Have you seen the Trump-Hillary presidential debate? It’s like a reality show over there, like a school playground. It’s not surprising that someone would look at Putin and have a positive view on how he carries himself. Of course what he is doing is crazy but he sure puts up a good facade, that’s all I’m saying.
The rest you mentioned is all of course state propaganda, this is nothing new.
Yes, Soviet military equipment was very impressive for its time. But in the 20 years of Putin’s rule, Russia has not created anything new in the field of armaments.
Those same S400s are a continuation of the S300 line of the 1975 model.
Russian T90 tanks are nothing more than modified T72 tanks of the 1974 model. And this list is endless.
Imported equipment was installed on the Soviet development. French thermal imagers, Chinese avionics, German engines, etc.
All this was presented to the Russian public as an outstanding achievement.
Russian electronics do not exist, Russian accurate sights do not exist, even Russian UAVs are Iranian or Chinese.
The fact is that no technological development is possible in a corrupt state.
At least half of the funds allocated for development are stolen at the stage of production creation.
After that, the unfortunate manufacturer buys a ready-made kit from China and happily announces the completion of the task.
This has happened many times and everyone laughs at it.
Russia suffered a crushing defeat near Kiev.
Why? Everything is simple. Putin was informed that a pro-Russian underground was operating in Ukraine, that the capture of Ukrainian cities would look like a parade, that pro-Russian agents were operating in Ukraine.
In fact, the money allocated for the recruitment of agents was stolen.
And now GRU General Sergei Beseda, under whose supervision the recruitment was supposed to be carried out, has been in prison for a year now.
And so it is in Russia in everything, from pensions to space flights.
Well, if that’s all true, why the fuck is there this perception in the West that Russia is this big bad boogeyman? Take Hollywood movies first, then video games, then the cyberspace? I guess in the end, money talks, bullshit takes the fucking bus. The military budget is stretched too far, focus on quantity over quality. You got like 60 billion and let’s assume for simplicity sake that it’s distributed like the US Military, 40% goes to salaries and shit, 25% procurement of new shit, vehicles, equipment, weaponry, etc, 20% for operations and maintenence, upkeep of the old Soviet shit, and Cold War era planes and tanks, which aren’t too impressive, break down quite a lot from what I’ve read years ago, 10% RnD, and 5.5% for military construction, family housing, and other expenses.
The distributions are probably not the same, and only fuck knows where all the money goes, but Cold War era tanks rusting away in hangars isn’t “military strength”.
I guess you’re right I overestimated the Russian military, i just thought the people in charge were more motivated and more serious about everything, but I guess at the end of the day, fuck it, it’s important that your own family eats, who gives a shit about anything else i.e crucial government jobs like managing military resources that will tomorrow protect you from getting wiped off the face of the earth.
Seriously, imagine if NATO actually invaded Russia? The U.S for example? Superior tanks, superior planes, superior armored vehicles, superior navy, superior logistics, superior control of cyberspace, superior training of infantry, superior special forces, superior numbers in both manpower and vehicles… It’d be a rude wake up call. But hey, the outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainians are a priority right…
You are miscalculating costs. In Russia, things are a little different.
10% will be stolen immediately, the rest will be swiped through controlled banks and a little more will be stolen in public procurement through front companies.
I think that ground operations for the US Army in Russia will result in unacceptable damage.
Our territory is too large and more than one army of the world is stuck in the Russian mud.
Rather, the scenario of missile and air strikes against Russia is more likely until the moment when the government asks for a truce on US terms.
However, let’s not forget that Russia has nuclear weapons.
It is unlikely that the United States will decide on a full-scale invasion, such as in Iraq, despite the weakness of the Russian army.
You’re right, I was just assuming a hypothetical scenario. I think nuclear weapons are actually what is allowing everyone to slack off on military spending, allowing everyone to just be lazy. That is however between two nuclear powers. However, if you want to invade some shit country, you go back to conventional.
So, if not even 60bn$ goes into the military per year, and it’s even less because of the corruption, then it’s even worse. Around 40b$ let’s say, and you have millions of active soldiers and reserves, too many tanks and artillery pieces, too much of everything, and now you have to spread all the money to cover everything or decomission the old shit and scrap it. Quantity over quality as I said. Stalin said “Quantity is a quality of it’s own.”. Say, what’s the average soldier wage there?
They did exactly as you say. They recruited 300,000 people for mobilization, handed them rusty machine guns and sent them to Ukraine.
This made it possible to stabilize the situation, but it is impossible to talk about any significant successes.
Now they are bringing T-54, T-55, BTR 60 tanks to the front and say with delight that there is still a large stock of T-34 tanks.
This is probably not quite what the Russian public in general expected.
It’s a difficult question. There are several types of military and each type has its own tariff scale.
A conscript soldier receives only monetary allowance – approximately $25
The nominal salary of a soldier under the contract is $500. To this are added “combat payments” x3, but only when the soldier is on the front lines.
PMC ad says $3,100 salary
There is also a so-called. “People’s Militia of the DNR-LNR”.
They get $400 + x3 if they are in the front lines.
UPD:
My data is inaccurate. Here is the exact data of the Ministry of Defense.
This is how much military contract service receives, taking into account combat payments, excluding taxes (min 13%)
— The minimum amount of payments is 204 thousand rubles per month;
– Deputy platoon commander – squad leader – from 242 thousand rubles per month;
– Squad commander – from 232 thousand rubles per month;
– Headquarters instructor – from 226 thousand rubles per month;
– Head of the radio station of the command vehicle – from 226 thousand rubles per month;
– Senior sapper – from 216 thousand rubles per month;
— Senior telephonist — from 219 thousand rubles per month;
– Grenade launcher – from 211 thousand rubles per month;
– Driver – from 211 thousand rubles per month;
– Cook – from 211 thousand rubles per month;
– Shooter – from 204 thousand rubles per month;
— Senior electrician driver — from 216 thousand rubles per month;
– Machine gunner – from 211 thousand rubles a month.
So 3 times the national average. Only Wagner promising 6 times the average. I guess that’s ok. Any complains about not getting paid or something?
Also, conscripts 25$? lol even North Korean slave workers get paid more I think. The guys that live in construction field trailers.
Also, they keep bringing older and older armor to the field, that’s just hopeless. As if the strategy was to waste as much Western ammo as possible.
The situation by the sound of it looks pretty desperate. If it’s really like this then I can imagine even the Russian side wants this to end as fast as possible
Of course, there are manipulations with payments, but this is rather a property of the clumsy Russian military machine.
A soldier may be on the front line for several months, but according to the papers, it is believed that he is in the rear. In this case, the soldier does not receive bonuses for participating in hostilities.
Conscripts are not entitled to a salary. It is believed that they are fully provided by the state, and $ 25 are issued for pocket expenses.
Most families support conscripts and send them money orders.
I don’t know if you understood me correctly. This only applies to soldiers on active duty. Service under the contract is paid as I said above.
In addition, the Russian authorities entrusted part of the provision of those mobilized to the regions.
The Ministry of Defense can provide the soldiers with weapons and uniforms, but bulletproof vests, backpacks and other ammunition must be provided by the regional authorities.
Sometimes soldiers get bulletproof vests with ceramic tiles inside, sometimes helmets that are punched through, airsoft masks and the like, bought from China.
Right, so just for reference: 1 USD is 78 Russian Rubles.
200,000 RUB is roughly 2500~$.
Times 12 makes that 30,000$.
Now, sources differ as far as national average wage goes. Some say 700$, some go as high as 1400$ which is probably being calculated in the Moscow area. Although I’m not sure whether they mean “average” or “median”, because median is actually what is preferred when looking at wages if the goal is to get a perspective on what the common man gets paid monthly.
Well, that is still good money I guess. Now, you know what would be funny, if they didn’t get paid anything or get paid less than the median. What are they gonna do, call the police? lol
I have restored your comment. I’m surprised it ended up in spam.
It all depends on the region. In Moscow, it is difficult to live on 40,000 rubles a month, while in some Voronezh, 40,000 is a very decent salary.
Calculating the average salary in Russia is like calculating the average temperature in a hospital.
The salary of a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation is approximately 500,000 rubles per month. At this time, in the regions they offer vacancies with a salary of 25-30,000 rubles.
Of course, in the regions there are a large number of people who want to go to Wagner.
In this case, they will record a video appeal to Putin or to the Minister of Defense. This will cause a resonance in society and the authorities will find a compromise solution.
I don’t know what will happen if they stop paying at all. They will most likely run away. But not immediately, but after 6-8 months. I say this because there were precedents when workers were not paid wages.
It got flagged as spam probably because of the multiple $ characters, the algorithm picking it up as if it’s one of those “I’m making 10000$ a month working from home!” bot comments.
This reminds me of ISIS and other terrorist groups. Many of them interviewed say they do it for the money. On top of the looting and sex slaves. Money is even more scarce for them than for some desolate area in Russia I’d imagine. At the end of the day, money truly does make the world go around.
What about real estate; i.e apartment costs, houses, renting apartment rooms, etc?
Also, what do you think of those big digit values when calculating your currency? When you buy something small, you pay like 1000s of Rubles. Do you get used to calculating it in your head? Because Euros or Dollars it’s pretty straight forward relatively speaking.
This is very funny, but this comment also ended up in spam.
But I have a different algorithm that detects spam, there is a different principle, it is not based on filtering by key phrases and symbols.
The situation is changing, I do not track what is happening for these guys with real estate and finances. Initially, they were not provided with any benefits at all. Now they have credit holidays.
Many Russians say: “I don’t care what the exchange rate of the ruble is, I don’t use dollars or euros.” And when you tell them, hey, dude, everything around you was bought for dollars, he starts to stupidly goggle.
It really is. There is not a single industry in Russia where equipment purchased for foreign currency is not used.
When I go to the store, I do not convert the dollar to rubles conversion, but I do it when I receive money for work. This is an exception to the general rule for Russians, I wrote above why.
Yeah, I didn’t want to mention it knowing you’d find it eventually lol.
I kind of meant the apartment costs in general in Russia, not specifically for the soldiers. I know I can google it but I figured hearing it from an actual Russian would yield more certainty.
‘Numbeo’ says the following for Moscow:
Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre 68,808.22 руб
Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre 40,305.26 руб
Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre 133,389.83 руб
Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre 75,405.80 руб
I guess those are reasonable prices.
It doesn’t really matter I guess, I was just asking to tie into the previous questions of national average wages etc, to get a better picture of how people live, and consequently how the soldiers live and are compensated for the fighting, if they ever survive.
Also, I think you misunderstood. I meant, when buying something, say a TV, you have to pay like 60,000 rubles. Meaning, you’re constantly dealing with big numbers.
Like the Chinese, when they are learning the Chinese symbols and alphabet and shit. They spend a significant amount of time on learning a reasonable amount of letters, whilst people who use the latin script simply learn around around 28~ letters. You see what I mean?
I guess you also just get used to it.
Those are trivial questions really, I was just curious.
Btw, let’s see if this one gets flagged as spam, now that instead of dollar signs I’m using RUBs. Perhaps your algorithm is a Russian nationalist lol ))
The cost of housing varies greatly depending on the area. Of course, housing in the center is more expensive and can generally reach astronomical sums, while a place in a hostel on the outskirts will cost 7-8 thousand.
On average, you can take a 1-2 room apartment for 35-45,000 in a decent quiet area with good accessibility.
However, it is worth considering that utility bills are 5-8,000.
People in Russia often simplify things. They say “It costs 1 ruble”. And you understand that it costs 1,000 rubles.
And yes, this comment was also marked as spam ;-)
The algorithm probably responds to numbers.
> I would estimate the chances of winning the spring-summer battle at 8/2 in favor of Ukraine
You are a slave of the propaganda machine. The odds are 1 Russian for every 8 to 10 Nazis.
Very funny, given that I am a citizen of Russia and Russian propaganda about the victory of Russia is pouring out of every iron.
However, if you say that the Nazis are in charge in Ukraine, we have nothing to talk about.
Do you not agree that there are Nazis in the ukro army? I’ve seen many emblem, insignia, doing the hitler salute etc of nazi in ukro army from telegram pics & videos, are there just russian propaganda then?
I agree that Russian propaganda makes it a bit obvious its propaganda but I hope the average citizen is not so dumb to not see through it. Western propaganda is more polished & vague, giving you that angle that it’s more believable but anyone doing a bit of research will find that out. Sadly a lot of people only read headlines.
I don’t know how you get 8/2 favor of ukraine, is it the dead body pics on this site or NATO support & aid? or is it the incompetency of the army & leadership? I’m actually shocked both have similar doctrine & tactics
I do hope we don’t see Russia losing and then change of gov, it could lead to the balkanise of the country into a lot of parts, the west are licking their lips on resource rich land, the nose knows :x
Of course I agree. There are Nazis in the Ukrainian army. There are Nazis in any country, but their presence does not make the power in the country Nazi.
Russian propaganda shows Nazi symbols, Ukrainians with Nazi tattoos and says: “Hey, look, Nazis rule in Ukraine!”
No, they are so stupid that they believe it. All this is the result of processing by propaganda for 20 years.
I draw this conclusion based on the available information obtained from Russian and Ukrainian publics and analysis of open sources.
Here it is impossible to say why Russia will lose. It’s a set of reasons. The scope of the comment does not allow talking about it in detail.
It is unlikely that we will get the Balkan scenario in the next 5-6 years. Russia has enough finance to stabilize the difficult situation in the regions.
Glad these punk ass mossad jews got dropped
Yes, the Nazi Jews getting their due
Мертвый укроп – хороший укроп :)