UFA combat medics (Hospitallers) are using M113 for extracting wounded and running supplies in and out of Bakhmut. They never lost one according to sources.
That's a big load of bullshit. None of my Ruskie friends have been harassed or attacked. A couple of have broken ties because one wouldn't denounce Putin over fears of never being allowed to go home to visit her sister.
Complicated
To make it easy...yes politicians are government funded because they work for the Government and so does the CBC even when their masters are in opposition.