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The relevance of our volunteer assistance in connection with the upcoming reform

If the increase in financial support for soldiers and officers is implemented, how much will we as volunteers be able to reduce our support for the front specifically in the area of equipping the best sniper teams?



We have certain statistics, because there are different levels of material support both for snipers and for the soldiers who fight alongside them, and the overall picture that emerges is a contradictory one.

First, the GUR recently went through a pay reform and the real funds that fighters and officers receive are half of what they had during Budanov's time. So behind all sorts of good intentions there can be enormous failures that are difficult to explain rationally during wartime.

The fact that this increase is being introduced through a Cabinet of Ministers resolution as an experiment, the fact that it is being funded from money saved by the Ministry of Defense itself, the fact that it will be regulated through commanders' orders — all of this means that very often people may simply be told: "There is no possibility," or "You did not earn it this month," and that is it — nobody receives the money.

Second, previous promises of "we will provide everything" ended with soldiers and volunteers still having to buy many things themselves.

Cars and cars repairs. We constantly have to help the guys with fuel. Very often, when body armor and helmets are lost, replacements once again come from volunteers.

Even the simplest and cheapest consumable item — 12-gauge ammunition — is often provided only in minimal quantities. In some units, soldiers are afraid to shoot it because they have to write a report explaining how every single shell was used if it is fired.

Therefore, the fair solution would simply be to pay everyone double their current salary starting today, and some professionals whose statistics against the enemy are exceptional should probably receive four times more.

Much of such an increase will go to providing for the fighters themselves, and the pressure on the volunteers will weaken, but not disappear.

There are several reasons for this.

First, there are unique and expensive resources that are constantly needed — for example, .375 caliber ammunition for the most professional snipers.

Second, extraordinary circumstances can always arise. An expensive sniper system can be destroyed, and a top professional may need to be equipped again from scratch.

Third, there are bottlenecks that the Ministry of Defense is not even thinking about yet.

I will give a typical example. Simply giving someone a shotgun and 12 or 30 shells and hoping that the person will shoot down drones is foolish. It is even worse when nothing is provided at all.

But here is the fact that matters right now: a soldier who has not been trained to shoot at drones has only about a 20% chance of survival compared to a soldier who completed a course with an instructor and fired at least 200 cartridges on a training range.

These 200 or more cartridges - they are not there, and only volunteers can help with them. Every day we receive requests from the front for one or two thousand anti-drone cartridges. But we dream of giving at least 25 thousand cartridges per center every month to at least a few centers with excellent instructors for training fighters.

But we will never be able to do that, because we are constantly putting out fires with more serious things.

And I have a feeling that if they increase the payments, they will save on a lot of things, and again the guys will not be able to buy everything themselves....

In the best-case scenario, where the payments will grow and everyone's support will not sag, but will improve, we can predict that the pressure on us specifically as volunteers with a certain specialization will decrease by 50% and this will be a huge relief, because it is getting harder and harder to pull through...

But in general, the need for volunteer support will not disappear, and here I can judge from the fact that those individual groups who, for one reason or another, are already well-provided for, that is, have twice as many opportunities as today, are also turning to us for help.

My dream is realistic. I dream that the number of requests and their content will decrease by two-thirds, and this is in many ways a utopian dream. The main thing is that there will always be a third of today's requests, and these will be various needs and we will try to help as much as we have the strength.

I started saying that we need to pay the soldiers more back in the fall of 2022, when the guys could take on average 2.5 times more for payments than today for the formally same money.
Thank God, if at least now the situation changes, this can become an important factor for positive changes on the front, if everything is implemented competently and thoughtfully. So far, everything is very illogical, with numerous injustices and in the course of these reforms they will need to be corrected...

But even if everything works out, we will still have calls every day "Palych, sorry, but we have no hope." There will be fewer of them, but they will be there. And we will help. Because we have one and only moral imperative: to treat a soldier on the front as if he were your child!!!

And when there is this principle, everything becomes clear and obvious: we will do everything we can and even more!!!

And most importantly, we remind you that so far no one has received anything, and the season is in full swing, there are many needs and we are simply constantly extinguishing a fire that is getting worse here and there!!!

Friends, our snipers still need your support!!!

Right now we need bullets, gunpowder, shotguns to protect against enemy drones, cartridges for them!!!

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