It uses the Android virtualization framework: https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization
Using a modified KVM: https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization/architecture
cafk
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The VM isn't running in user space, it runs through the hypervisor, shell in userspace is just a convenience feature of accessing the VM that is running parallel to Android and the hypervisor enables passthrough of certain SoC features to talk directly to CPU/GPU, without traversing the android userspace.
It's like running wsl on windows, both windows and wsl are virtualized and talking to hypervisor, your wsl instance isn't running within your windows instance.
Difference is a fully virtualized Linux VM running natively, compared to termux terminal emulator running in user space with an independent package manager.
So you (in theory) have more hw access, access controls and aren't limited to Android user space running a single user emulation - with no privilege separation existing within termux.
It's also a possibility that they're part of the various PMCs: Wagner Group, Redut, Convoy, Patriot, Yastreb, Rusich, Tsarist Wolves, or the Russian Imperial Movement
That have been sighted or associated with activities in Ukraine - as national volunteers are getting (relatively) fancy signing up bonuses, it wouldn't surprise me if some outside of Russia see it as an opportunity.
Doesn't this get countered by the health-care reform they introduced earlier this year, where they're planning to introduce fees for people with kids who are 6 or older - and the family plans also require an increased fee (i.e. partner, whose taking care of the children for example, as part of the family insurance).
The 600€ per year that a family of 2 with 2 kids gets reduced by ~€200 per month for the partners & kids insurance.
https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/gesundheitsreform-kabinett-2425916