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Report reveals: Russian soldiers go to the Ukraine war for starvation wages

2022-05-27T03:56:55.209Z


Report reveals: Russian soldiers go to the Ukraine war for starvation wages Created: 05/27/2022, 05:41 am By: Felix Durach Some Russian soldiers in the Ukraine war receive less than 800 euros a month for their service. This is according to a recent report. According to many experts, Russian troops have already suffered heavy losses in the three months since the war of aggression against Ukrain


Report reveals: Russian soldiers go to the Ukraine war for starvation wages

Created: 05/27/2022, 05:41 am

By: Felix Durach

Some Russian soldiers in the Ukraine war receive less than 800 euros a month for their service.

This is according to a recent report.

According to many experts, Russian troops have already suffered heavy losses in the three months since the war of aggression against Ukraine began.

According to unconfirmed information from the Ukrainian general staff, almost 30,000 Russian soldiers have died in the war in Ukraine since the end of February.

That cannot be checked.

Research by the Russian investigative platform Proekt has now analyzed and published the pay and social background of the Russian soldiers - and thus shed light on possible motives for the Ukraine war.

Many of the almost 900,000 soldiers deployed in the war against Ukraine, according to the report, come from the poorest regions of the country, where the median monthly income of the residents is just over 20,000 rubles, i.e. the equivalent of around 300 euros .

Ukraine War: Pay published - Russian soldiers receive 730 euros a month

Participation in the war could therefore also be an economic decision for many soldiers - although the pay for the members of the troops is anything but lavish.

According to the research, the pay of ordinary soldiers rarely exceeds 50,000 rubles (around 730 euros) a month.

In this context, the reports of looting by Russian soldiers in the affected areas of Ukraine can probably be better classified.

In the past few weeks, pictures of Russian soldiers packing captured goods such as shoes, toys or toilet lids in packages to send them to their families have been circulating on the Telegram messenger service.

Goods that are sometimes scarce in the socially disadvantaged areas from which some of the soldiers come.

Russian soldiers patrol through a destroyed iron and steel works in the city of Mariupol (symbolic image).

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Russian soldiers in the Ukraine war: officers earn significantly less in international comparison

According to Proekt

, Russian officers in Ukraine receive

significantly higher salaries than ordinary soldiers, but they do not earn particularly well, especially in international comparison.

An officer with the rank of colonel in the Russian army earns only a third of the salary that an officer of the same rank receives in the German armed forces.

The average monthly income of a Russian officer in 2019 was 270,000 rubles (about 4,000 euros).

Members of the general staff, who command the Russian army directly during the war, received only slightly more, at 300,000 rubles (approx. 4,400 euros).

These numbers were released by the Russian Defense Ministry.

However, officers' salaries are no longer publicly disclosed.

In comparison, the deputies of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who only witness the war from afar, earn a monthly salary of 1.2 million rubles (about 17,500 euros), it said.

Vladimir Putin announced a pay increase on Wednesday when he visited wounded soldiers in a hospital for the first time since the war began.

Ukraine War: Fighting in eastern Ukraine continues

Fierce fighting broke out again between Russian and Ukrainian troops in Donbass in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.

Putin's declared goal is to bring the entire region under Russian control.

Ukrainian troops continue to defend the strategically important industrial city of Severodonets.

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Source: merkur

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