The Russia - Ukraine Conflict

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Ukrayinska Pravda

Russians creates unit of athletes to participate in war against Ukraine​

Ukrainska Pravda

Thu, February 22, 2024 at 5:21 PM GMT+21 min read

A Russian athlete killed in the war in Ukraine. Photo: superkarate website

A Russian athlete killed in the war in Ukraine. Photo: superkarate website

Russia has created a special unit of athletes, including participants in martial arts tournaments, to take part in the war against Ukraine. The unit is sponsored by state-owned companies.

Source: Vazhnyie Istorii (Important Stories), National Resistance Centre

Details: The media reported that Sergey Kiriyenko, the first deputy head of the Administration of the Russian President, and Yuriy Trutniev, the first deputy prime minister and presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, created the Soyuz (Union) unit to participate in the war, which included "the best of the best in their respective sports disciplines".

The unit was formed on the basis of the Russian Union of Martial Arts (RUMA), which is headed by Kiriyenko and Trutniev. They announced this in December 2022.
A year later, by December 2023, 145 people had joined the unit.

The publication reports that Soyuz, in particular, includes Viktor Horn, the winner of the World Cup in Kyokushinkai (a form of karate), Sergey Plekhanov, Japanese kickboxing champion. It also included the late European Kyokushinkai champion Sergey Uvitskyi.

The fighters were trained and coordinated at the Russian University of Special Forces in Chechnya.
According to financial documents available to the publication, in 2022-2023, Rosatom and its subsidiary transferred 123 million roubles (USD 1.3 million) to Soyuz, Sberbank transferred 50 million (USD 538,000), RusHydro – 60 million (USD 645,600), Lukoil – 50 million (USD 538,000), VTB – 25 million (USD 269,00). From the Trutniev Group, the largest donation to the RSBI - 80 million (USD 860,800) - was made by the Magadan-based security company White Wolf.

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russians pissed im showing pictures of deceased russian "super soldiers"..
my answer?

Rumyantsev Vladimir Alviyanovich
60 years
Ivanovo region

Died

think about it, a 60 year old mobilized private.... how low on manpower do you have to be for this to happen????

i woke up with over 200 death notifications this morning


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1/15
Good news: the "Putin system" is beginning to collapse. Exactly what I had predicted mathematically (in March) is happening, namely: The announced drastic tax increases in Russia (the highest tax increases in the history of modern Russia) as well as Putin's recently published slogans (according to which "everyone must work as if they were at the front") are dramatic signs that the toxicity of the Russian war economy is reaching a critical level.
What does "toxicity" mean:
If the cost of replacing material losses (in such a way that the speed of replacement is in balance with the speed of losses) is no longer within the scope of the financing of the state budget, then a system becomes unfinanceable. This unfinanceability is toxic for a system because it causes the system to collapse in the medium term (unless the war is won).
Russia is familiar with this type of toxicity; the USSR collapsed when the costs of the arms race (pushed by US President Ronald Reagan) could no longer be financed from the state budget, which led to the collapse of the state.
The situation in Russia today is even more dramatic than the situation in the USSR back then. Today it is not just an arms race, but an active war, and in this war there is NO balance between loss and replacement: high-quality military goods (eg modern air defense systems such as the "S-400 Triumf", or tanks and aircraft) can no longer be produced at a speed that is in balance with the rate of losses. And at the same time, Ukraine is compensating for its personnel disadvantages by using drones.
If Russian state revenues are further weakened NOW (e.g. by effective strikes against refineries) and if Russian supply routes are attacked NOW (if Ukraine receives all the weapons it needs for this), then this will massively accelerate the collapse of Russia, shorten the war and lead more quickly to a real peace.

Putin is a loser:
Does he have air superiority over Ukraine?
No. On the contrary, the extent of his superiority is diminishing.
Is Ukraine "demilitarized"?
No. On the contrary.
Has he prevented the expansion of NATO?
No. On the contrary.
Has he restored Russia's imperial greatness?
No. On the contrary, he is now just "the little partner of big China".

Putin is a poker player who can only bluff:
He can only threaten to escalate the war, but he cannot carry out this threat because Russia is far too inferior to NATO.

Putin's only hope: politicians in the West who are hesitant enough (in their efforts to support Ukraine) so that the war can be won "somehow" before Russia collapses.
We must not allow it to come to that.
If Ukraine wins and Russia loses, then the entire China-Iran-Russia axis loses. And that is in the best interest of humanity.

#UKRAINE
#UkraineNeverSurrenders
#ArmUkraineToWin
#ArmUkraineToWinNOW

2/15
RUSSIA IS DEFEATABLE. NOW MORE THAN EVER. #Putin himself knows that as well, which is exactly why he resorts to propaganda and empty nuclear threats (out of the old KGB concept toolbox) when he lacks real military strength. As history teaches us: RUSSIA IS A HISTORICAL LOSER

3/15
Yes, that's always important to remember.

4/15
That's simply the way it is.

5/15
Well said!

6/15
Absolutely right, in each and every single regard.

7/15
Much more CAN be done, that's right.

8/15
Prägnant und exakt auf den Punkt gebracht. Infolge seiner Drohungen wissen wir, dass wir auf dem richtigen Weg sind. Dass an der Verständnisfähigkeit des Herrn Olaf Zweifel angebracht sind, ist leider ebenfalls richtig.

9/15
Die zaudernden Politiker im Westen sind in der Tat ein Problem. Und sie sind Putins realistischste Hoffnung.

10/15
Thank you. I hope the content and meaning of this explanation will reach at least some of the hesitant politicians.

11/15
... and necessary to repeat over and over again, considering all the propaganda.

12/15
If the cost of replacing material losses (in such a way that the speed of replacement is in balance with the speed of losses) is no longer within the scope of the financing of the state budget, then a system becomes unfinanceable.


With mathematical inevitability.

13/15
Indeed, that would be good.

14/15
The calculation is definitely correct. Only the behavior of Western politicians can alter the outcome.

15/15
Exactly. Succinctly to the point.


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