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Summary

Russia has cut compensation for troops injured in Ukraine, limiting full payouts of 3 million rubles ($30,000) to those with severe, life-threatening injuries.

Soldiers with minor wounds will now receive reduced payments between 1 million ($10,000) and 100,000 ($1,000) rubles.

This change comes as Russia faces escalating war expenses, with casualty compensation costs estimated at 2.3 trillion rubles ($26 billion) by mid-2024.

High personnel losses have led to recruitment efforts funded by regional social welfare budgets, diverting resources from vulnerable populations, raising concerns about future mobilization efforts and public discontent.

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[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 52 points 15 hours ago

Wow. 3 million rubles is down that much?

[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 4 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, that was my thought.

I think it's clear that Biden and the west is banking on collapsing the country economically, which I totally understand as a reasonable idea. But I think that it fails to account for the incredibly unpredictable and negative consequences of collapsing a state. And that's before considering that it's a nuclear state.

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 48 points 15 hours ago

Or they were thinking that russia was going to be a rational actor and stop before it's collapse.

[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 hours ago

Am I crazy for assuming that they're in "go for broke" mode, and everyone else assumes this too?

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