The current maximum amount of compensation is 3 million rubles (nearly $29,000), but the severity of the injury is not considered for its allocation. The change approved by Putin classifies injuries into three categories.
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?
How much do you want to be that full limb loss is now considered “other minor injuries”?
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?