The USAID check bounced , so Meduza (an "independent" news site about the Russian world) is now running stories about the Ukrainian government kidnapping men off the street and throwing them into an unwinnable hellscape meat grinder with one week of training, while everyone back home agrees the war is a scam. Featuring an underground railroad for sensitive moids

This process has been dubbed "busification" — maybe the second most widely used word in Ukraine today. Later that evening or the next morning, you're sent to boot camp:

<-- Ukrainians before being sent to booty camp.

The car's rated to burn 10 liters of gas per 100 kilometers [23.5 miles per gallon]. But I drive carefully, and it burns only five or six [about 43 miles per gallon]. My commanding officer says, "Are you screwing with me?" I say, "I'm saving fuel." He goes, "What the frick do I care if you're saving fuel? The numbers don't match on the paperwork." "So what should I do?" I ask him. He answers, "Go buy a hose. Don't tell me you're too good to siphon diesel like everyone else."

You weren't lying, there is some quality material there to read.

USAID doesn't come with any editorial control, so how could it have affected what they publish? Do you have a SOURCE for your allegations?

Good post. I'm not really surprised by any of it though.

Snapshots:

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/27/please-don-t-use-my-name:

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

Mr. Putin, can we plz get a wittle bitty paycheck from you? Plz, we love you!