as of 2025, yunarmiya - biggest but not the only putlerjugend branch - claims around 1.8 million members. this is more than EU and UK combined: approximately 1.62 million active-duty personnel (1.47 million EU + 150,000 UK). every year those kids grow up to kill. and those aren't only ᵣussian kids.
hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children from occupied territories are involved. a 2025 report suggests nearly 60,000 children in occupied Luhansk alone were recruited into yunarmiya and similar groups like the pioneers’ movement:
Crimea: by early 2022, ᵣussia reported 29,000 children recruited into yunarmiya, with 4,000 added in 2021 alone.
Luhansk and Donetsk: recruitment intensified after russia’s 2022 annexation, with 5,800 children officially in yunarmiya in Luhansk, plus 50,000 in related propaganda programs.
Kherson and Zaporizhzhya: branches were established post-2022, but specific numbers are less documented.
Mariupol: children are sent to "summer camps" for shooting training and indoctrination.
as for ᵣussian economy collapse, there's an ideological foundation being laid for full state takeover - from introducing a single system that flags military aged men at the border and keeps them in, through propagandists talking about how market economy is a western idea imposed on ᵣussians and the root of current crisis, to controlled depreciation of ruble with state dictating pace of foreign currency release to companies.
there's also absolutely no way NATO countries, under any banner, will be able to sustain drone defence with the current price imbalance - it's time to acknowledge we, European NATO transformed our armed forces to support American counterinsurgency model - because we're a bunch of dumb fucks - and we need to start learning from the only people who know how to handle ᵣussians. our problem. Polish troops will be trained in Ukraine, by Ukrainians in fucking up ᵣussian drones - which is a good first step for Poland, but doesn't really solve the problem of ᵣussia existing.
ᵣussians can be defeated either in Pokrovsk or in Paris - and the further we allow them to go, the harder it will get.
there are nations in Europe that are learning. UK is opening Ukrainian drones factories with review from usage included in production process. there's specialists volunteering engineering support in countless grassroots initiatives from every democratic country I can name and few shïtholes too. the problem is scope - most of NATO thinks we're not at war, scale and money. but it's developing. as for pilots, no amount of training outside the warzone can prepare for that. there are initiatives allowing to pilot drones in warzone from cosy bedrooms in Europe. this will give us seeds, that when time comes will allow scaling up. it's not all hopeless - it's bad, but with war, the learning, scaling up and natural selection happens very fast when it starts.
Until the Shitler is out of the brownhouse I can't imagine america do anything of substance to help Ukraine just enough to appease his more "moderate" (I recognize the oxymoron) supporters. I think the rest of Europe and NATO is going to have to step up. Hopefully this at least rattles some of their cages enough to spur some action. Stay Safe Slava Ukraini !
Slava Ukraini.
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as of 2025, yunarmiya - biggest but not the only putlerjugend branch - claims around 1.8 million members. this is more than EU and UK combined: approximately 1.62 million active-duty personnel (1.47 million EU + 150,000 UK). every year those kids grow up to kill. and those aren't only ᵣussian kids.
hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children from occupied territories are involved. a 2025 report suggests nearly 60,000 children in occupied Luhansk alone were recruited into yunarmiya and similar groups like the pioneers’ movement:
Crimea: by early 2022, ᵣussia reported 29,000 children recruited into yunarmiya, with 4,000 added in 2021 alone.
Luhansk and Donetsk: recruitment intensified after russia’s 2022 annexation, with 5,800 children officially in yunarmiya in Luhansk, plus 50,000 in related propaganda programs.
Kherson and Zaporizhzhya: branches were established post-2022, but specific numbers are less documented.
Mariupol: children are sent to "summer camps" for shooting training and indoctrination.
as for ᵣussian economy collapse, there's an ideological foundation being laid for full state takeover - from introducing a single system that flags military aged men at the border and keeps them in, through propagandists talking about how market economy is a western idea imposed on ᵣussians and the root of current crisis, to controlled depreciation of ruble with state dictating pace of foreign currency release to companies.
the price of inaction will only keep growing.
there's also absolutely no way NATO countries, under any banner, will be able to sustain drone defence with the current price imbalance - it's time to acknowledge we, European NATO transformed our armed forces to support American counterinsurgency model - because we're a bunch of dumb fucks - and we need to start learning from the only people who know how to handle ᵣussians. our problem. Polish troops will be trained in Ukraine, by Ukrainians in fucking up ᵣussian drones - which is a good first step for Poland, but doesn't really solve the problem of ᵣussia existing.
ᵣussians can be defeated either in Pokrovsk or in Paris - and the further we allow them to go, the harder it will get.
Absolutely NATO better be reviewing and improving their drone defences after this it would be insane to think this is a random event.
there are nations in Europe that are learning. UK is opening Ukrainian drones factories with review from usage included in production process. there's specialists volunteering engineering support in countless grassroots initiatives from every democratic country I can name and few shïtholes too. the problem is scope - most of NATO thinks we're not at war, scale and money. but it's developing. as for pilots, no amount of training outside the warzone can prepare for that. there are initiatives allowing to pilot drones in warzone from cosy bedrooms in Europe. this will give us seeds, that when time comes will allow scaling up. it's not all hopeless - it's bad, but with war, the learning, scaling up and natural selection happens very fast when it starts.
Until the Shitler is out of the brownhouse I can't imagine america do anything of substance to help Ukraine just enough to appease his more "moderate" (I recognize the oxymoron) supporters. I think the rest of Europe and NATO is going to have to step up. Hopefully this at least rattles some of their cages enough to spur some action. Stay Safe Slava Ukraini !