NATO reports 600,000 Russian casualties in Ukraine war, prompting deployment of 10,000 North Korean troops.
Russia n dictator Vladimir Putin is slashing payments to his soldiers wounded in Ukraine in the face of rising casualties and mushrooming war costs.
Everyone else — including those with lower-grade wounds like fractures, concussions and gunshot wounds that don’t affect their internal organs — will take home between 100,000 and one million rubles, which is the equivalent of $10,000 to $100,000. The move comes as US researchers suggested over the summer that the Russian government is facing spiraling bills for its big payouts, Newsweek added.
That sum — which is about $24 billion in American dollars — totaled about 6% of the country’s total budget for the year.Anna Tsivileva, Russia’s deputy defense minister, hinted at the changes earlier this month when she said the existing system never took into account how serious the injuries were — and that officials had talked about replacing that with a sliding scale, the outlet said.Still, it’s difficult to get a handle on exactly how many casualties the Russians have suffered.
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