The investigative publication “Proekt” has identified the names of 166 Russian military, giving orders during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Only 39 of them (23 percent) have real combat experience, according to materialpublished on the publication’s website on Monday, May 23.
The average income of an officer who now commands the ground forces in 2019 was about 270 thousand rubles a month, a General Staff officer – about 300 thousand, commanders of military districts and individual branches of the military – about 900 thousand. At the same time, ordinary soldiers received no more than 50 thousand rubles a month.
According to the publication, every third top commander Russian army, participating in the war in Ukraine, has debts, including housing and communal services and alimony, five of them were brought to administrative responsibility. Every fifth commander had traffic police fines, while every sixth commander did not pay them on time.
Troops participating in the war in Ukraine
As the investigators of the “Project” established, before the war Russia concentrated at the borders of Ukraine at least 20 percent of the personnel of the armed forces of the Russian Federation in four directions of attack. In total, the Russian army has about 900 thousand people.
According to the “Project”, all units of the Russian Armed Forces capable of going on the offensive are participating in the war in Ukraine: all ground armies – 11 combined arms and one tank, all offensive forces of the Airborne Forces, all reconnaissance formations, marines of all four fleets, self-propelled artillery, bomber, attack and fighter aircraft.
The 15th Alexandria motorized rifle brigade from the Samara region is also participating in the invasion – the only peacekeeping unit in the country that Russia has the right to send to resolve international conflicts under the auspices of the UN.
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War in Ukraine – 20.05.2022
XXL vyshyvanka in Cambridge. Further, in the photo chronicle of the war in Ukraine on May 20 – the destruction in Velyka Kostromka and Merefa, the Kharkiv metro is preparing to restore work, the grave of the occupier, the dream of a tanker, graffiti with a Russian ship in Zaporozhye, how Vyshyvanka Day was held in different countries of the world and other pictures. ATTENTION! Some of the photographs contain scenes of gore, violence and death.
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War in Ukraine – 20.05.2022
A boy on a wrecked Russian tank in the Kyiv region. The destroyed equipment has not yet been removed everywhere.
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War in Ukraine – 20.05.2022
A resident of the village of Velyka Kostromka, Dnepropetrovsk region, plays the piano near a house damaged by Russian shelling.
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War in Ukraine – 20.05.2022
A resident of the village of Velikaya Kostromka collects the surviving things inside the destroyed house.
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War in Ukraine – 20.05.2022
A destroyed school in the town of Merefa, Kharkov region.
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War in Ukraine – 20.05.2022
School building from above. On May 17, about 30 houses were damaged in Merefa.
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War in Ukraine – 20.05.2022
A boiler room in Kharkiv that was hit by a Russian shell on May 19.
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According to the city authorities, the building of the boiler house is subject to reconstruction from scratch.
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Some residents of Kharkiv have been living at metro stations since the beginning of the war and still remain there, although there are fewer shellings.
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Now people are asked to gradually leave the station. Who have nowhere else to go, the authorities are looking for temporary housing.
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War in Ukraine – 20.05.2022
The Kharkiv City Council announced the start of preparatory work to restore train traffic.
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War in Ukraine – 20.05.2022
Pictures from the Kharkov (and Kyiv) metro have already become part of the history of this still ongoing war.
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War in Ukraine – 20.05.2022
A destroyed Russian tank near the village of Malaya Rogan near Kharkov.
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War in Ukraine – 20.05.2022
Residents of Malaya Rogan near the place where the bodies of Russian soldiers were exhumed from temporary burials.
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War in Ukraine – 20.05.2022
“The Russian occupier is buried here…” – information about the deceased soldier near the temporary burial place in Malaya Rogan.
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Funnels from explosions in a field near Malaya Rogan.
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Ukrainian tank in the forest on the defensive line somewhere in the Donetsk region.
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Tanker Alexander is resting in a sleeping bag at a camouflaged position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Employees of the National Guard of Ukraine in Transcarpathia practice actions to evacuate wounded comrades.
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Participants of the training and an instructor during practical training in Transcarpathia.
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Almost finished graffiti based on a postage stamp with a Russian warship in Zaporozhye.
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Let’s finish the photo chronicle with shots taken on the occasion of Vyshyvanka Day, in which, for example, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, took part on May 19.
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War in Ukraine – 20.05.2022
A T-shirt with a traditional pattern and a badge in the form of the flag of Ukraine for the action on Vyshyvanka Day in Kyiv.
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Participants of the action on Vyshyvanka Day in Krakow, Poland.
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The organizers of the celebration in Cambridge are the very ones who hold a huge embroidered shirt on the first frame of this photo chronicle.
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War in Ukraine – 20.05.2022
Volodymyr Zelenskyy chose a khaki-colored vyshyvanka with patterns in wartime tones.
Author: Nikolay Permyakov
