Is he cutting it by letting the ruble plummet, by having a whopping 21% rate at he central bank so the inflation sky rockets or does he just pay less?

D) all of the above

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Makes sense. Paying someone who lost a limb 30k and also paying someone who got a scratch from shrapnell 30k is a bit bizarre.

Now let's see if lost limbs get classified as medium to reduce the actual costs.

Let's hope his troops revolt.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

They should get together and take the payment from the Gremlin by force

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The payment for a "severe" injury is 3 million rubles (nearly $29,000), and for a "minor" injury, 1 million rubles (nearly $10,000). For "other minor injuries," soldiers will receive compensation of 100,000 rubles ($960), according to Russian state news agency TASS. The decree signed by Putin does not specify how the severity of a given injury is classified.

How much do you want to be that full limb loss is now considered "other minor injuries"?

Instead of ordering a new wave of conscription, Putin ordered an increase in the sign-on bonus for new military recruits to serve in Ukraine to 400,000 rubles (over $4,600), effectively doubling the lump-sum payment of 195,000 ($2,260) rubles initially promised to recruits in September 2022.

This will be great for moral. Imagine being one of the soldiers that signed up for $2260 and the new guys are coming in getting $4600? New soldiers have to know that that bad blood will have them forced into the most dangerous or suicidal roles because the guys there before you are pissed off. Who would sign up for that?