Russian regions are rapidly increasing their signing bonuses for contract soldiers. St. Petersburg is leading , offering a regional payout of 4.1m rubles (total 4.5m), or roughly 50,000 euros

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  1. cossackbedouin9960 on

    as for the national average its now over 1,44 million rubles **, and adding the federal payout on top, total sign-up bonus in Russia is now close to 2 million rubles or 22,000 euros**

    **(was too lazy to use Xcancel again)**

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  2. Yeah, yeah and a large part of that will be paid to their commanders to not “zero” them right away.

  3. Leading-Monk5506 on

    And once they‘re dead, their families won‘t see any of that money. The Russians are catching on to this, they‘re not stupid.

  4. The year has started and the signing kpis have been reset. Need to fulfill the plan. The bonuses will drop again in late november.

  5. cossackbedouin9960 on

    remember boys, if WW3 starts, be a coward and join as late as possible, sign-up bonuses and salaries get only higher over time /s

    i guess whatever Russian soldiers joined in 2022 and are now wounded and out of combat really regret joining for a piss poor 2000-5000 euros when they could have gotten 20,000-50,000 euros in 2025 depending on the region

    the forgotten zeroes

  6. I guess people who get shot for five million look down on their predecessors, who were shot for only 800k.

  7. AlexRescueDotCom on

    Marriages in St. Petersburg are BOOMING! The process is very simple. You are a woman, you marry a man, you send him to the army, and all the money goes to you. There are tons of widows with 3-4 marriages under their belts. In fact, they marry a different man while their current husband is being a terrorist in Ukraine. Tons of videos about them online.

    This shows me how rotten to the core Russia is. Their grandparents, parents, their children, they are all rotten. They destroy others and themselves. There is nothing good about them. There is no, “Well when this is over, maybe Russia will fix itself”.

    Absolutely not. It’s like part of their genes to be evil. There is no compassion.

  8. VicenteOlisipo on

    This generates a curious set of incentives, doesn’t it? Even **if** you are willing to join, the fast rising bonuses mean you should delay as much as possible, since you’ll get a bigger bonus and spend less time at war.

  9. robeewankenobee on

    50k euro 😄😄😄 … what a joke.

    How does one Put In ballance their own life and health against a 50k euro payout? If they even get the money in full … which i doubt, especially when they die.

    If you’re in Russia after all this time under Putler’s regime, you kinda deserve whatever is coming.

  10. anders_hansson on

    I honestly think that this is Russia’s main problem w.r.t manpower.

    They have the people, much more than Ukraine, but they can’t raise the bonuses indefinitely. The number of men they have to send to the front is about the same over time, but the price increases every month.

  11. SeriesDowntown5947 on

    I belive russia has 1 million men. Rotating 200 000 in and out while keeping their best troops in reserve etc.

  12. And it’s even more on a per hour basis when you factor in that you’re likely to be killed within days of signing up.

  13. Makes sense, all the patriots have been dead for a long time, murderers and rapists are hardly still in prison anymore. Now they have to pay massively.

  14. Do you have to pay it out if the soldier dies?

    Surely this can’t deplete Russia’s war chest at an alarming rate….

  15. New-Score-5199 on

    Btw, for any wondering – in 2022, before full scale invasion began, 4.5mln of russian rubles could buy you pretty the same amount of Euro – around 50k.

  16. I can’t imagine the mindset of someone who signs up – (1) you’re almost certainly going to be killed within weeks, or months, at best; (2) even if you don’t care about your life, your family is unlikely to see the money either – i keep hearing reports of field commanders extorting their men, stealing their money by demanding their bank cards and PIN codes, etc.

  17. How do they get the money to do that? Issuing national debt? Do the soldiers never actually get the money?

  18. Is it possible in practice to exchange 4.5M rubles to 50k euros? Can you find some bank or trader that would actually do it?

    Or is this just a theoretical exchange rate?

  19. Uncertain_Hand on

    Wait, but were told that they are “poor boys conscripts taken against their will uwu”

  20. Can’t really do much with that money when you’re not alive to spend it.

    Even if you’re alive you’ll probably spend most drinking to forget what you saw and did.

  21. theAbominablySlowMan on

    At that rate why wouldn’t you just wait another year to sign up for twice the money? 

  22. wars “worked” long ago (pre ww1) since you had an actually good nation to fight for.

    who wants to fight for their shithole today?

    (exception apply, obviously)

  23. So now the state is running out of money local governments are being depleted of both men and money. What could go wrong in that shithole country?