The life expectancy of Russian soldiers has reportedly dwindled as Vladimir Putin resorts to offering cash to incentivise troops to sign up.
Evgen Istrebin, whose X profile suggests that he is based in Kyiv in Ukraine, posted publicly available figures online which suggested that, in November, the average one-time payment for new soldiers reached 2.47million rubles.
This is said to be an increase of 150 thousand rubles month on month. This is the equivalent of $23,524.
In sterling, the total is £18,526.
In November, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that officials in the city of Belgorod has ‘tripled’ the one-time regional payment for new contract soldiers of the Russian Defense Ministry to 2.6million rubles.
Previously, the news source added that record payments to recruits were due in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – a federal subject of Russia – and the country’s capital Moscow.
These were 2.35million and 1.9million rubles respectively.
In sterling, this is the equivalent of around £17,000 and £13,700 as of December 2.
Jay in Kyiv – who describes himself as an « American in Ukraine » – reports that the average life expectancy of Russian soldiers in Ukraine is now « three and a half weeks ».
According to Forbes, the average lifespan was a month as of November 27.
On November 29, the Kyiv Independent reported that 81,000 Russian soldiers are thought to have been killed in Ukraine.
The news site said that, according to a joint investigation by BBC Russia and Mediazona, a Russian independent media outlet, 80,973 Russian soldiers who died during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine had been identified.
It is believed that more than half of those killed were not affiliated with the Russian army at the beginning of the war in February, 2022.
This means that they voluntarily signed contracts to fight in Ukraine.
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