The Kremlin is very afraid of mobilization. Lures people to war with millions in payments
10.09.2024 – Translated from Ukrainian via Google and OFP
The heavy losses of the Russian occupation forces in the war in Ukraine and the impossibility of regaining control over even their own territory in the Kursk region are forcing the Putin regime to look for new ways to replenish the ranks of the “liberators”. Now in the Russian army conscripts are being forced to sign a contract en masse, but this does not save the situation. The last argument was used – large one-time payments.
More details about the situation can be found in the OBOZ.UA article.
Motivation is money
Russian insiders say that Putin demanded that Russian Defense Minister Belousov and governors step up the recruitment of contract soldiers for the “SVO.” He made it clear to his inner circle that working with contract soldiers and volunteers is the only possible alternative to a new wave of mobilization.
“And the Russian authorities intend to delay it until the very last moment. This will be very serious stress for society, so for starters it was decided to use other methods of recruiting military personnel for the “special operation,” insiders add.
They also claim that additional funding will be allocated from the state budget’s oil and gas revenues, which will allegedly increase one-time payments to the newly minted occupiers to 7–10 million rubles (this is approximately 3–4.5 million hryvnia at the NBU exchange rate).
In August 2024, the federal payment increased from 195 to 400 thousand rubles, and regional payments increased by an average of four times . The highest regional payments are in Moscow (1.9 million rubles) and St. Petersburg (1.7 million rubles). Together with the federal payment, new contract soldiers in a third of Russian regions will receive 1 million rubles or more. In three regions – Moscow, St. Petersburg and Karachay-Cherkessia – contract soldiers will receive a total of 2 million rubles.
“Over the last few months, payments in the regions of the Russian Federation for signing contracts have indeed been growing. But the constant raising of the bar means that even with the creation of such attractive financial conditions, Russians understand very well that this is in fact an advance payment for death. That is, they already realize that this is not some kind of “victorious walk to Ukraine” – this is a real war. And they kill in it. Therefore, those who have fallen into a credit trap or residents of depressed regions of the Russian Federation are led by high payments, hoping to help their families in this way. But this usually ends badly,” says OBOZ.UA’s interlocutor in Ukrainian intelligence.
First a contract, then to slaughter
The “sweet life” that is lured into the occupation army is only in words. After signing the contract, the situation (and attitude) changes dramatically.
There are already many known cases where wounded occupiers continue to be thrown into murderous assaults, and those who insisted on hospital treatment are deprived of their allowances and declared to have left their unit without authorization (SOCH) – with all the consequences that entails.
One of the latest examples is Artur Zaripov from Chelyabinsk’s Kushnak, who was seriously wounded back in September 2022 when he came under fire in Ukraine. The occupier miraculously survived and is now undergoing a long course of rehabilitation.
On August 13, Zaripov passed a commission that decided to grant him 60 days of sick leave. He wrote a report, attached all the documents and sent it to his unit commander. However, the report was never reviewed, and the occupier was declared to have left the unit without permission with a report to the district and his pay was blocked. “This decision deprives me and my family of our livelihood,” the war criminal now laments.
A few days ago it also became known that Russian servicemen from Yugra (Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug) and Tyumen Oblast are being held in barracks and threatened with criminal charges if they refuse to fight. Many of them are wounded, maimed and disabled.
The occupiers recorded an appeal to Putin, naively hoping to change the situation. They said that they were on the territory of the Yelansky garrison in the Sverdlovsk region, from where they were trying to be sent by plane to the combat zone in Ukraine.
“We were brought here almost in a convoy from the Tyumen garrison. On August 2, we came for a check there – they took all our documents, phones, loaded us into a bus and brazenly sent us here, to Yelan. The previous group was also supposedly sent to the VVK, but they ended up behind the tape. They want to do the same with us – to slaughter! Today they tried to put us on a plane to Lugansk,” one of the occupiers complained.
All of them have not received payments for a long time and are forced to buy even food for themselves. And this is another striking example of the Russian government’s “care” for “heroes”. After all, the main thing is to lure them to war, and then – you are expendable material.
It will be scary tomorrow
In the Russian Federation, few people think about what will happen after the contract soldiers who survived the war, who went to a criminal war because of high payments, return home.
And the current situation with the increase in payments for signing a contract is a double-edged sword, believes Russian analyst Anatoly Nesmiyan.
“Some number of contract soldiers will, of course, be found under such conditions. But here two serious conflicts will arise – between those who got to the front for free, those who signed a contract for half a million to a million, and a new recruitment for 5-7 million per contract. The motivation of the former, of course, will be greatly reduced. And the second point, which the authorities are not considering at all now. A person who fought for a lot of money, returning to civilian life with its completely different conditions will, to put it mildly, be greatly demotivated for peaceful life. Not all, of course, but quite a few,” Nesmiyan wrote on his Telegram channel.
Russia has already faced a wave of crime caused by those who returned from the war. The serious crimes committed by the “heroes of the SVO” are making residents of probably all regions of Russia break out in a cold sweat. These are mainly prisoners pardoned by Putin, who were recruited in the colonies. Now they may be joined by occupiers who are hooked on the needle of large payments.
But for now, all this, of course, does not bother the Russian authorities at all. “They have a current operational task. It’s like the slogans to give birth to as many as possible. What happens next is of no interest to anyone. The boss said “give birth”, so die, but give birth. What happens next – the boss will figure it out later. He has a big head,” Nesmiyan concluded.
A small glimpse into the morbid world of the russian army, where lies, bad treatment, and cheating are the norm. Although those roaches are not to be envied for their plight, I have no compassion.