Selfie from front: ‘VIP’ for ambitious Russian officials inside the brigade

For the last three years, many youngsters in Russia have been doing everything to avoid being sent to fight against Ukraine to fight in war. But some Russian enthusiasts signed up with enthusiasm that President Vladimir Putin turned the fight for the existence of his country away from the fight to join a drone brigade.Pro-wise Russian bloggers have described the unit, Kascad as “a sinner for the authorities”. According to Kremlin Watchrs and military analysts, based on an unknown place in a part of Russia -occupied Ukraine, it promotes a career politically brain recruitment, which Kascad is called “VIP unit”.Thousands of men have been called to fight in Ukraine since 2022 and have been put in front of them as a terrible toll mount a day. But stents with cascade are short -lived. And given that it is a drone unit, which is far from the front lines, the possibility of being put in the way of danger is relatively low, analysts say.

Officers assigned to the unit usually live three to eight months, get a lot of photo opes with automated rifles and return to their jobs with a hero’s reception, according to many social media posts, in which the recruitments have documented their deployment, and have done accounts together by analysts.The UK’s Ministry of Defense said last year, “allows the statistics of the Enlistment Elite with Cascad to be guaranteed security and potentially curry supports to bypass the statutory military service requirements.”Party President Andrei Turchak said that more than 270 Craimalin regional MPs and 200 members of the youth wing of the Governing United Russia party have served in the Russian army in Ukraine. At least six members of Parliament, dozens of supporters-Crarymaline youth activists and even a cosmonott have done so in Kascad.In November, 12 senior members of the Youth Wing of United Russia in St. Petersburg joined Kascad on the same day. Among them were Alexandra Malikov, who immediately updated his profile photo on social media, showing a clean man, wearing sunglasses and raising an automatic rifle, standing in front of a building, resolving scattered windows and debris. A few months ago, Malikov was documenting his life as a member of a local council. Malikov described his decision to list patriotism as a duty of patriotism but refused to describe his role in Kascad. “Here, I have been doing what I have been doing for many years: supporting my country and where I need to play an active role.”A long -time member of Parliament, Dimitri V. Sabbin, has been commanding Kaskad from 2022. In 2023, a camouflage-clad sabalin introduced a Kascad team to reporters. In the footage, two soldiers launched a fighter drone from one area and others monitoring drone flights from a bunker. Kaskad has at least 54 crew that combat drones with 10 types of reconnaissance and front line, Salin said.Stents in Kaskad have been helpful for the career of some of its giants. For example, Yevgeny Perivashov was a low -ranked member of Parliament, when he joined Kascad in November 2022. After his tenure with the brigade, Putin saw him at a television meeting and offered a job. In November, Perivashov became the first Ukraine war legend to be appointed as a governor.