A man called Jay who lives in Kyiv has said he is an “American in Ukraine” and has said that the life expectancy of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine is just “three and half weeks.”
Vladimir Putin is offering people 150,000 rubles or £18,526 to fight for Russia in Ukraine, according to Evgen Istrebin writing on X.
The Russian newspaper Kommersant reported in November that officials in Belgorod that the one-time payment has “tripled” to 2.6 million rubles.
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In November Forbes reported that average life span of a Russian soldier fighting in Ukraine is a month.
A Russian defence official has said that they have trained 300,000 contract soldiers as reserves for fighting regiments, he said in an article for propaganda outlet Krasnaya Zvezda on Monday, the Kyiv Independent reports.
Ivan Buvaltsev, the head of the training department of Russia‘s Armed Forces said, “Seven companies of instructors and eight training companies for specialists… have trained over 300,000 service members.”
At the end of last year, the former Defence Minister Sergie Shoigu set up nine reserve battalions who’s objective is to train and prepare soldiers for war in Ukraine, this was an attempt by Putin to offset casualties in the war torn country.
The former Russian Defence Minister said in 2023 that 335,000 people voluntarily joined the Russian Army and the former President and Putin’s right hand man Dmitry Medvedev said this year 200,000 joined up.
In November the highest daily loss of Russian life hit 2,030 and as of Monday they have lost Russia lost 743,920 troops, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said.
