Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russian space and rocket engineers are being recruited to join a new Russian army battalion called Uranus to fight in Ukraine. Advertisements published by Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, promise that it will "educate you with a strong spirit, will and body." ⬇️

2/ The advertisement shown above has been posted on the internal website of Roscosmos, according to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel. It asks physically qualified men aged up to 48 years old to sign a contract for military service with the Uranus battalion.

3/ Joiners are offered:

🔺 A 100,000 ruble ($1,257) joining bonus
🔺 Monthly payments of 100,000 rubles from the battalion
🔺 Monthly payments of at least 170,000 rubles ($2,137) from the Russian government

4/🔺 Monthly payments of at least 50,000 rubles ($628) from the regional government.

This amounts to at least the equivalent of $4,000 a month, which is a very generous salary in Russian terms and far better than Roscosmos salaries.

5/ In 2020, it was reported that Roscosmos employees were being paid on average just $780 a month. (By comparison, NASA pays its employees an average of $8,128 a month). The recruitment campaign is a sign of Russia's ongoing struggle to find more manpower for the war in Ukraine.

6/ However, recruiting from its space agency suggests that Russia is increasingly sacrificing specialist expertise in pursuit of its diminishing hopes of victory in Ukraine. It seems unlikely that making rocket engineers into infantrymen is a good option for Russia's future. /end

Source:
t.me/vchkogpu/38720