Thank you for your kind support.
My guess is that their website is under frequent Ruscist attacks, and their protective measures complicate the user experience.
You can try another government donation account - U24.gov.ua. See: https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/02/27/verified-ways-to-help-the-ukrainian-army/
If you look below, the photo is clearly labeled "This photo is illustrative".
Their assault does look like the Hunger Games, especially since the soldiers are often deprived of food and water. I suspect that those who survive all these vicissitudes will overthrow the Pootin regime. It's like throwing a bunch of rats into a metal barrel - the Rat King will emerge.
Here it is:
Since the start of the September 2022 mobilization in Russia, a staggering 4,000 criminal cases linked to the desertion of military personnel have been brought before Russian courts, Russian online publication Mediazona reported on Nov. 24.
As of Nov. 21, there have been 4,121 such criminal cases, with an average of approximately 100 verdicts issued weekly since June 2023, according to data extracted from military court websites. The peak in verdict announcements occurred in August, with a total of 457 verdicts declared.
Notably, many of these cases resulted in suspended sentences, allowing deserters to rejoin the conflict in Ukraine. An accompanying infographic in the report illustrates a year-on-year escalation in cases of desertion from Russian military units, with over 3,000 cases documented in 2023.
In addition to criminal cases involving voluntary departure from military units, reporters uncovered 317 instances of non-compliance with command orders. These cases predominantly surfaced in Rostov, Kaliningrad Oblast, the Primorsky Krai, and Kamchatka in Russia.
Courts also adjudicated 96 cases of desertion by Russian occupiers, with the infographic indicating that Sevastopol, a temporarily occupied city, witnessed the highest number of desertion cases, totaling nine.
Sorry, but the link takes you to Euromaidan. It must have been some glitch that took you to YouTube.
As a rational thinker, you are correct. However, I think the concerns here are quite different. The first thing a Ruscist kleptocrat would think about is a huge amount of money that can be stolen in the process of construction. The safety of the end result doesn't matter that much.
Since the Ruscists themselves attack everyone regardless of the PRESS sign or the medical cross, and in their opinion, Ukrainians are vile and inferior, they expect Ukrainians to attack regardless of any sign. Otherwise they would admit that they themselves are inferior.
Well, the memory of the Kuban People's Republic is still alive: https://babel.ua/en/texts/76760-104-year-ago-kuban-people-s-republic-declared-its-independence-from-russia-and-for-several-times-tried-to-unite-with-ukraine-as-a-result-bolsheviks-captured-everyone-here-s-its-story
He has been trapped in the propaganda bubble and has become delusional as a result of it.
It was the Soviet Union that developed the technology and produced the missiles. The rocket engineer, Sergei Korolev, was from the Ukraine. Much of the research and production was done in the Ukraine. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent decline, Russia lost much of its skilled labor and technologies. All Soviet production chains and skilled labor ceased to exist. Russia was unable to reproduce the best Soviet rocket engines.
In the 2000s, the Russian "Federation" (actually a neo-empire) restored some production using modern European machinery. Now, because of sanctions, Russia doesn't have enough of the essential components (e.g. ball bearings) it used to import from Europe. And it has a hard time maintaining European machinery without European engineers.
Russia spent a lot of Soviet missiles attacking Ukrainian cities to intimidate Ukrainians and leave them without electricity and heat in the winter. It didn't work. Now, in desperation, Pootin and his fellow criminals are trying to get more missiles from other dictatorships.
Very much: https://thehill.com/policy/international/europe/596023-condoleezza-rice-describes-putin-as-delusional-erratic/
https://www.businessinsider.com/former-us-ambassador-to-russia-says-putin-increasingly-unhinged-2022-2
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/01/nation/i-personally-think-hes-unhinged-analysts-question-putins-mental-state-after-ukraine-invasion/