The enlistment bonus is paid up front, but what they don't advertise is that they have to buy their own gear I was in the U.S. military back in the 90's and even back then it took over $100,000 to properly equip one soldier I don't want to consider what it costs now
@@tomk3732Putin's ex husband, Medvedev, will outlive Putin. That's clear. Watch and you will see. The Russian Oligarchs will give Putin the gift of lead soon.
Non of these conscripts want to fight.Its happened many times in the past when soldiers have given up in their hundreds because they could’nt see the point of fighting.This has happened in Kursk,Russian soldiers have given up without a fight.
Nunca houve. Quem guardava os postos de passagem em kursk eram 115 guardas de fronteira. Eles foram incluídos na troca de prisioneiros hà alguns dias atrás e já retornaram a Rússia.
Yep, most likely. Though it's not a whole lot different even here in the U.S., where the Services often recruit from rural small towns with few job prospects, and promise 'em a new car and a wad of cash if they enlist!
@@SynthWaveTech007 It's funny to hear people claim Russia is going to run out of men, when their population has only grown since WWII. And in WWII they lost tens of millions. Even if the claims of 500-700k casualties were true, it wouldn't be indicative of Russia running out of manpower. The conflict started with 120k active troops, now Russia has over 700k. And if they get wiped out take a wild guess what happens next....another large mobilization of hundreds of thousands of men will occur. This process will repeat until the war of attrition comes to an end. Look at the male population in Ukraine, and then Russia. There is more men to be mobilized on one side than the other, and it's not even close.
Russia is encircled by NATo....that (NATo expansion including neighbour of RUssia Ukraineú ignited all disaster. Started already in 2014 by breaching Minsk peace Agreements...
I have zero sympathy for these guys! They should stay home and stand up to Putrids regime, like the Syrians tried to do, but with zero support from the West!
She cares more about her share of the money than she does his life, we’ve seen that time and time again mothers appeal for not being paid when their boys go missing
Putler has done in Chechnya the same as he's done in Georgia install pro-Ruzzian government thugs and dictators. He tried to do the same in 2014 in Ukraine, but failed.
It is doubtful that the 20,000 rubles payment is awarded at sign up. And it's likely voided if the recruit is killed in action - his widow will receive $200, if at all.
Maybe it’s not so bad, you get the 20k in the pocket upfront, then go the frontline and wave a white flag and then get a free ticket to Ukraine and Europe :)
That's a cute scenario. Judging by how Russia recruited earlier in the war in the guise of Wagner, they get paid within 6-12 months from recruitment, if they survive.
@@nicocrestmere9688How do you even compare yourself to Russia, you lost to Vietnam after 20years and lost to Afghanistan after 20years and donated free weapons to the Taliban, you also lost to North Korea and your comparing yourself to a country fighting modern combat
since 2022 ukraine lost 876 000 troops plus all those Nato weapons worth billios have been destroyed and ukraine is not a Nato member and no sigle territory ukraine has managed to get back instead Russia has added more ukraine territories in days Pokrovsk ajn industrial hub of Donbass is about to fall into Russian hannds,all 32 Nato countries are beig expposed by Russia,these warmogers thought Russia was Iraq.
They don't want to commit more experienced soldiers in Eastern Ukraine that are still advancing. Instead, they feed these conscripted cannon fodder into Kursk to see how many survive, and if they survive they are sent to the East.
Just look at how unfair life can be, people are suffering an living below the basic living standards an the Russian government doesn't even look on them, but 2 million per person can come out to fight war.
€20k = 2 years pay for the average russian. Poverty in that country, and yet they all should be rich. Where has all the oil and resources money gone over the years? The people are being lied to and robbed by their "government"
Bloomberg called the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region the most failed military operation in the 21st century in terms of the ratio between the result and the resources expended. According to Bloomberg's sources, even the Americans fleeing Afghanistan have not wasted so many resources.
@@MemovoxI’ve seen no such report and its basis is completely false. Ukraine has used 10-15k troops to secure more territory in 2 weeks than Russia has used several hundred thousand to take in 12 months. Ukraine has only lost, at most, 5-10% of that force while Russia is achieving casualties in the ballpark of 1k every day to make their gains. With an estimated 2k Russian prisoners taken in Kursk.
That logo on his tee shirt is brilliant! Get Lost is the idiom, but the word for word transliteration is "go the way of the forest" or "go into the forest" and the fast forward arrow is a sideways fir/christmas tree and inside is says "go into the forest" 'идите лесом.' absolutely great.
In my country? It takes a year of training before you became a rifle or armed ready. (meaning: assignments like, e.g.: armory personnel, refilling war machines, chock points missions, cleaning and checking war plains, jets, and ammunitios, if marines- doing maintenance choirs, getting ships ready, loading unloading equipmens, boat operators, learning ducking maneuver or staff or first aiders and evac assignments). And a year for your to be at least a war ready soldier. ( now you can enter to battle or by this time, you've passes trainins like scout rangers, sea and land survival trainins, paratroopers, specialized machinery operators, snipers, tank asults and so on). To put a human lives in just few days or weeks to prepare for war? Is a suicide mission. Russia don't have a month to wait, so I guess they are sending his citizens(human lives) just to be another fresh meat to war harden Ukrainians soldiers. Just saying from my military point of views.
You mean volunteers. People who are willing and motivated to fight which Ukraine has. Russia only has conscripts, who are forced or drafted, unmotivated and unwilling. Volunteers>Concripts
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@@ntnrdrgz Ukraine also has conscripts, don't they?
Vietnam was our bloodiest war since WW2. We lost 50k troops in 10yrs. Russia has lost 600k in 3yrs...so far. And they thought they could rival the US. 😂
If the competition was send sons of the nation do die in pointless wars, both keep trying to out do each other, on this occasion Russia has rivalled and beaten the USA.
@@jesusaguilar4585 Don't think they talk about dead but people that have been injured etc. I don't think the number is correct but half might be correct and we don't know how many Africans, North Koreans, Syrians and other nations they use soldiers from so who know's what the real number is. Poor people on both sides.
American watching from the State of Rhode Island in the U.S.-much applause to DW for recognizing Ivan's efforts-& much applause and admiration to you Ivan-for-your efforts-it is the most deeply disturbing what Putin's regime has done to Ukraine's people-but-also what it has done to Russia's people-resulting in countless-needless deaths and misery. Best to you all.
That is the russian way of fighting wars, throw meat at the front, get results....no result? send more meat etc...make sure opponent runs out of ammo no matter the cost.
@@wokeaf1337 the result is that they have a horrible demographic situation, they're only 143 million and they have the industrial output of only one quarter of Germany... if you think of that, who won WW2 again? in the longer geopolitical outlook Germany came out on top...
You need different levels of expertise for different combat tasks. Coordinating a combined-arms offensive? You better be on your game. Digging a trench and sitting in it with a rifle? Anyone can do that. If russia decides to mobilise conscripts, that will hurt politically, and losses will spike even higher than they already are - but it will also instantly increase the size of the army Ukraine has to face by over 50%. Never underestimate the enemy. Ukraine won a significant victory at Kursk, but this war is far from over.
They seem like pretty good soldiers for geriatrics,holding off the Russian military?absolutely astonishing,Russia really must be the most incompetent army on earth if a bunch of old men can stand against them.
@@marcoAKAjoe Because there is no war in Ba Sing Se. No need for the average Russian to worry, or get involved in politics, or listen to their relatives who married Ukrainians on the phone begging for them to see reality. It can all be ignored as long as it doesn't directly affect thrm.
1:32 I lived in Russia for 8 years and can tell you that amount is not earned by the average Russian. I lived in St. Petersburg for about 5 years and worked at IT companies there, thus, I had good jobs for the "Russian reality" and to get to 1 million rubles I needed to work for more than a year. Therefore, the average Russian would need to work way longer than that to reach 2M rubles.
Exactly! In my lifetime, the Soviet Union/Ru**ia has gone from 250 million people to about 140. I know that but still haven't gotten used to it. They have about 140, while we - the European countries they once had hold over - now have 190 million inhabitants. Ukraine+Poland alone have more than half of Ru**ia's number of inhabitants.
Someone who barely speaks English hearing a word, that was never spoken, and building an entire argument off of that. How do you deal with a drunk Russian shadow boxer?
@@NameRiioz Talks about Ukraine's surrender, that is. russia never offered anything in return for that surrender, though. Talking about peace is different from being willing to negotiate a functional settlement. It's also interesting that you mention 2014, when russia unilaterally started the war, and 2022, when russia unilaterally escalated the war to this full-scale conflict. If I were pretending to be for peace, I would be very quiet about those years.
@@NameRiioz "You can have peace, but first retreat your army behind the Dniepr and then we begin talks, with another government" That's pretty much what Russian demands of Ukraine.
@@riversidegardenradio9070when it’s just had its border crossed and cant re-secure it then its in no position to talk modern day military tactics or logistical expertise!..its being bled out drop by drop by the west!… or has that ruble not dropped yet!
@@riversidegardenradio9070 the only thing Russias achieved is global humiliation…all for the whims of a murderous dictator and his obedient serf population…
And that is only the dead ones. And then there is about the same number of wounded Russian soldiers on top of that. And Russia are continuing to get well over 1000 soldiers getting killed and wounded every single day now and this has been happening for multiple months. If this continues for 1 more year for the Russians, then they will have gotten about 400.000 more killed and wounded soldiers. It is total insanity and Russia will most likely need many decades to recover from losing so many men. Their workforce will also be so diminished that their economy will need many decades to recover as well and they might never recover economically as western countries most likely will not have the trust to trade with Russia again.
he's seeing his account with which he's buying his souls go down a lot faster than hoped... and the moment that money is gone Chechnya becomes overnight a breakaway region that will probably take Dagestan along...
It is, slowly. But Russia will still be a feudal society, unable to profit from its vast natural resources and unwilling to tackle its systemic corruption. It will continue to swing to the North Korean model of governance and rural citizens will still live in squalor not seen in the west since the 1800’s.
The Russians had no compelling reason to endanger their lives to further the political ambitions of others while Ukrainian people must battle to preserve their national identity or else Ukraine would cease to exist.
I think it's more pragmatic than that, but still valid enough... Ukraine wants to join the wave of wealth that came over the Baltic states, Poland, Yougoslavia (the Europe-friendly side of Slovenia and Croatia at least)... and it's not a zero sum game, trade and development bring prosperity, more money to spend on your loved ones ... it's understandable they don't let the gangsters from Moscow take that away from them.
Im hoping Ukraine feel the same, the democracies need to up their game in terms of supplying weapons in quantities / type they need without any restrictions in how the weapons are used
