It's a pretty obvious carrot for those that serve. That's a lot of money. It would be the equivalent of me buying a home and the government basically cancelling my 30 year mortgage and saying it's yours for serving in the war for the last 2-3 years. In the US, you get carrots like sign on bonuses (i think i remember it was like 30k years back), free 4 year degree, etc.

It's a mechanism to signal to future recruits that you actually get tangible benefit. There's that one low IQ poster that keeps posting pics of chips or whatever given to parents of dead soldiers in Russia, but this disproves that nonsense.

New recruits can count on the repayment of current debts by the state in the amount of up to 10,000,000 rubles.

And Ukrainian soldiers get: Their wives & girlfriends leaving them to go be prostitutes in the West. Excellent trade!

thx both for clarifying.
also elite : bless.

This post was edited by ferdia on Nov 23 2024 12:18pm

100k$ * 1.2M currently serving = 120bn$ this sounds like a LOT.

I wonder if it’s sustainable.

It's an up to* number. I doubt that all participants are getting the equivalent of 100k, average distributions I'm sure a lot less. You also have to complete the contract. But even if it's like 30k that's still significant, it's basically on par with US signing contracts.

500 DPRK soldiers, Russian officers killed in Ukraine's Storm Shadow strike on Maryino, media says
The death of the First Deputy Commander of the Leningrad Military District, Lieutenant General Valery Solodchuk, was reported
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/500-dprk-soldiers-russian-officers-killed-1732371366.html

This is from the strike a couple days ago, so its old news, but the casualties are why Russia probably Hazel'd Ukraine. The PA pivdenmash facility in the ukrainian city of dnipro, was making parts for their own mrbms, aswell as being a facility that made parts for icbms, deep underground. The message from Russia was also to not mass-produce their hrim-2 missles.

Impressive Killed to Wounded ratio. 500 North Koreans killed, 3 wounded. Totally believable.

They shot down 500 out of 508 north koreans as they flew over Kyiv

Amid Trump's victory, US discusses returning nuclear weapons to Ukraine – NYT
The Biden administration seeks to provide Ukraine with as much assistance as possible before Trump takes office. This includes $7 billion in weapons and ammunition from Pentagon stockpiles and an additional $2.1 billion for procuring new weapons from US defense contractors.

According to media reports, some US officials have suggested that Biden might return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/amid-trump-s-victory-us-discusses-returning-1732289329.html

The MIC really doesnt want the Trump peace plan. Oh well, i guess on the nuclear armageddon bright side, sleepy joe aint so sleepy anymore