The Russian government intends allocate 90 billion rubles (about 948 million dollars) for one-time payments for the conclusion of military contracts in the period from 2025 to 2027.
This was reported by URA-Inform with reference to ISW.
< p>ISW experts note that in recent months, Russian authorities have significantly increased financial support for the military, including increasing payments for signing contracts.
«The Russian federal government is offering one-time payments of 400,000 rubles ($4,200) for signing a military contract, in addition to one-time payments offered by regional authorities, some of which recently exceeded one million rubles. This suggests that the Kremlin intends to recruit 225,000 new contract servicemen between 2025 and 2027, while maintaining current rates, which is unlikely given that those rates have been steadily increasing since 2022», — the report says.
Analysts emphasize that such measures are related to the fact that current recruitment efforts are becoming less effective and producing fewer results.
«According to ISW estimates, there are medium- and long-term limitations on the number of conscripts that can be attracted by the ongoing Russian crypto-mobilization campaign, and increasing financial incentives is unlikely to have a significant impact on overcoming these limitations,» the report says.
It was also previously reported that the deputy spoke out against recruiting large sums of money into the army: it would be the “wrong motivation.”