Estimates from researchers in the U.S. in July suggested that the Kremlin faces eye-watering costs for its payouts to troops injured in the war in Ukraine.

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    7•10 hours ago

    Interesting thumbnail poster, using both Zа and Беz spelling. I wonder if the Latin letter Z will eventually replace the Cyrillic variant, З, the longer this war drags on.

    I can see it being more practical since З looks an awful lot like 3 for it to be confusing on a daily basis.

    • @[email protected]English
      13•9 hours ago

      Nearly 3 years into the 3-day special operation that was originally marked with the letter Z, no wonder it’s confusing

      • @[email protected]English
        2•8 hours ago

        This is why monospaced serif typesets are programmer’s best friend. That and they look cool.

        Or for the numbers, whatever typeset they use for marking airport runways.

        • @humorlessrepostEnglish
          2•6 hours ago

          Especially ones with awesome ligatures, like FiraCode. Feels so weird when I’m not on my computer and I see raw multi-character symbols like != and =>