Before the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was considered the second largest army of the world. However, the fighting with our eastern neighbor showed the truth about the preparation, training and equipping of Vladimir Putin's troops.
As we wrote, the Russian army is missing virtually everything. Volunteers traveled around the cities and villages in the Zaigrajewski region in Buriaci (right at the border with Mongolia) and appealed to the transfer of refrigerators, motorcycles, wheelchairs and clothes to Russian soldiers.
Volunteers and donors provide the army of Vladimir Putin many necessary things: from uniforms to thermal imaging cameras and drones. The Russian opposition website The Insider talked to volunteers from border regions, who have been dealing with equipment, equipment and other help for the army since 2022. However, since February this year, their number has been gradually decreasing. Like people willing to support the army.
- Russia is armor. Satellite data reveal a scale. “Moscow wants to control the Suwałki isthmus, which means an attack on NATO territories”
Ruslan is a businessman from around Belgorod. He gave the fighting army all they asked for. He bought, among others Quadrocopters. When they asked for drones and uniforms, he sent money. He had direct contact with the army. As he says, the soldiers wrote to him, asking: “Send money to it” and “Pour it there.”
“Then it turned out that the fighters, to whom I sent one hundred thousand rubles, on the same day they released them all in a bath with prostitutes,” says the Russian.
Ruslan called with reproach to one of the soldiers with whom he had contact. In the phone he only heard that “they protect people like him and risk life”, so he is to “sit quietly” and be grateful. “I felt like the last loser, who was drew from everything that was worth something for me,” adds Ruslan.
- Everyone behind the Germans. So much for the army, Europe
Russia allocates 40 percent to the army national budget
This year, Russia allocates over 6 percent to the army. own GDP. That's 13.2 trillion rubles ($ 142 billion). In practice, this means that “national defense and security” consume 40 percent. the entire Russian budget.
