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#HotelMars: Roskosmos goes to Ukraine war: Starship Troopers of the 21st Century. Anatoly Zak, RussianSpaceWeb.com. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#HotelMars: Roskosmos goes to Ukraine war: Starship Troopers of the 21st Century. Anatoly Zak, RussianSpaceWeb.com. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/it-appears-that-roscosmos-really-is-recruiting-soldiers-for-the-ukraine-war/

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Travelites and questions about Roscosmos' private army and its relationship to Ukraine and

1:08.0

the Ukraine conflict. We have this from the Financial Times, which is mysterious and compelling.

1:14.3

Russia's latest space agency mission, raising a militia for the war in Ukraine, subhead.

1:20.9

Roscosmos has helped recruit a battalion to fight while sending cosmonauts into space

1:25.6

alongside NASA. And it's totally a very good day to you. When I first saw this headline

1:31.1

I thought, what? And then I learned that there are private armies in Russia besides the

1:39.0

very infamous Vognogru. Roscosmos, however, doesn't really need an army. They're not

1:44.9

quite battling aliens yet. You tell me, however, that Roscosmos has employment challenges

1:52.2

because of the slowdown in the space movement. Where would these recruits come from? If they

1:57.1

are in fact joining what they call is the Uron battalion. Uron is the Russian word for

2:03.6

the planet Uranus. Could even to you, Anatoliy.

2:06.4

Hello, John. Yes, it's a very interesting peculiar story. And I think what we, from the

2:13.0

fragmentary information that we know is that recruitment posters appeared in a company

2:20.6

called PEOPOLOT, which is located in a city of Omsk, which is very far from Moscow. It's

2:25.5

an eastern Siberia. And that's, I think, that geography is very important because as we know

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