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Daily reminder that Putin's army of invasion was trained on the Rheinmetall-built training centre Mulino. In 2014 they "left" and construction was finished by "Гарнизон" company, probably a proxy. 100% of its imports came from Germany, last Rheinmetall shipments coming in 2019 pic.twitter.com/CxRsr9vPbV
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
In 2011 Rheinmetall got a contract for building a training center in Mulino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. They modelled it after the training center of Bundeswehr in Altmark. They planned to build "the most advanced system of its kind worldwide" pic.twitter.com/k84jqnnRpV
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
Mulino started in 2011 was the high point of Serdyukov's reforms. Two things you must understand about Serdyukov ministry:
1. No other minister of defence made such a big focus on the land army
2. No other minister of defence was so eager to import ready solutions from the West pic.twitter.com/Zm8dkNrDwA— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
Russian media was pretty open about it back then. See an article from 2011 https://t.co/VQyA0Gfb1N Now their straightforwardness may sound weird. Back then it was normal. Russia really started to hide its degree of cooperation with Western (German mostly) partners only after 2014 pic.twitter.com/NtvpaXd8hG
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
They say that Rheinmetall "rebuilt" it. Not quite true. Gorohovetsky centre in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is the largest in Russia. But it got obsolete. So new German-built Mulino was created very close to it, but on a new field. It was easier to build from scratch than modernize
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
In September 2021 Vladimir Putin visited Mulino to see the main phase of the Russian-Belarusian strategic manoeuvres "West-2021". Few months later the same troops were sent in Ukraine. Check Kremlin's website https://t.co/ngwgQNHxnf pic.twitter.com/v3eY9JAJOR
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
Mulino was finished in 2020 (FYI: the last Rheinmetall shipments are dated by 2019). My sources say though that Mulino doesn't meet the planned standards. Russian proxies were stealing too much. Otherwise Russians might have the NATO-level training centre
(Putin in Mulino, 2021) pic.twitter.com/Zr94JCvDBD
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
You see Putin coming to the West-2021 manoeuvres with Minister of Defence Shoygu and the Chief of General Staff Gerasimov
The sign says: "Putin came to the main phase of manoeuvres in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast"
Indeed. The only modern Western built centre Mulino is located here pic.twitter.com/BtpvZz35Pt
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
That's Klaus Eberhardt who signed the deal to build Mulino in 2011 as the CEO of @RheinmetallAG
I urge the media to question this person regarding his role in building the Putin's war machine. He started construction of the centre to train the future Russian army of invasion pic.twitter.com/QohUVQfNIe
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
That's Armin Papperger, @RheinmetallAG CEO since 2013
I urge the media to question this person regarding Rheinmetall's ties with the Russian "Гарнизон" company that finished Mulino after Rheinmetall "left" in 2014. Did he supply them with equipment to finish Mulino *after* 2014? pic.twitter.com/2b0HrNaFJR
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
We urgently need the investigation of @RheinmetallAG involvement in building Mulino, the only modern Western-standard training centre that Russia has. That's where Putin's army of invasion was trained. That's where he launched his last strategic manoeuvres before marching West pic.twitter.com/L0zopXKTCP
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
@RheinmetallAG CEO Klaus Eberhardt started building the Truppenübungsplatz Altmark-modeled training centre for Putin in 2011. And there are strong indications that the CEO Armin Papperger continued the project *after* 2014 through via a Russian proxy "Гарнизон". See data for 2019 pic.twitter.com/0g6Y0zD1NR
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
Until a few days ago a press release about the @RheinmetallAG winning "a major order in Russia" (=Mulino) was still on their website https://t.co/cXceo6zw74. It was there on July 5 when I wrote a thread on their role in building the Putin's war machine
Since then they deleted it
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
Well, I knew that the @RheinmetallAG are gonna to delete the article on their involvement in building Putin's best training centre where the Russian army was preparing for their march west
That's why I screenshoted it pic.twitter.com/BtukAaFJMG
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
Once again, I urge the media to investigate the @RheinmetallAG role in preparing the Putin's army for the war. That includes their connections with the Гарнизон company which was finishing the construction after the Rheinmetall "left" Mulino in 2014. Question CEO Armin Papperger
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
I also urge the media to investigate:
1. Other (German) suppliers of "Гарнизон" which was building Putin's training Mulino
2. German politicians who allowed this to happen. Did they do it knowingly? That must be investigated— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
Putin's war machine is fully import dependent. It was supplied from all over the world. In very rare cases it had such exotic equipment suppliers as Turkey, Brazil or China. Most equipment however is Western/Japan/Tigers. It's *not* Chinese. And most importantly, German
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
No other nation bears so massive and so direct responsibility for preparing Putin's army for this war as Germany. In this regard I find German stance quite cynical. It were your companies that armed Putin and your politicians that allowed it to happen. Investigate them. The end🧵 pic.twitter.com/vqmSVpQC9V
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 13, 2022
Since 2014 Rheinmetall could not be building Mulino *directly*. They had to "leave" the project to a Russian company, which they would provide with supplies to finish construction. An additional layer was added to this project. And my sources say this layer was stealing too much https://t.co/qQJCiVY1pZ
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 14, 2022
According to my sources, the main problem was institutional. Once Rheinmetall could not manage the Mulino construction directly, it was delegated to a Russian company Гарнизон. Which maximised short term profits for its management. That's why it is of lower quality than planned
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 14, 2022
When discussing sanction policy many underestimate how difficult it is to do stuff. Let's say Putin can't get sth from Europe. "Then he could just buy it through X". No, it's not "just". You can bypass sanctions by adding layers & proxies. But it will be very much more expensive
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 14, 2022
Furthermore, these layers and proxies are led by sentient and intelligent beings. Who know they have leverage now due to a very peculiar situation. But that can't last for long. What do you do? You maximize your *short term* profits. Often at the cost of quality
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 14, 2022
That's about the planning horizon. German managers wanted to build a lasting partnership (=long term planning). Russian managers apparently wanted to profit & run. That's why Rheinmetall was interested in building Putin the best training ground in the world and proxies were not
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 14, 2022
Many see "corruption" as a major institutional problem of Russia. I disagree. (Too wild) "corruption" is a symptom of short term planning. If you know that every decision and regulation can be capriciously overturned at any moment, that you can be preyed upon by Siloviki…
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 14, 2022
… that Kremlin can give you all the guarantees and still break them, then why would you even plan for a long term? Are you dumb? You just maximize your profit, and store it abroad. You also move your family abroad asap. You move yourself abroad as soon as you can
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 14, 2022
The elephant in the room is that (most of) Russian administrative-corporate class sees the country more as a hunting ground. Hence the short term planning. So Putin has no choice but to massively rely on foreigners with a culture incentivizing the long term planning. The end
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) July 14, 2022