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Russia offers cash bonuses, frees prisoners and lures foreigners to replenish its troops in Ukraine
Russia offers high pay, bonuses, and citizenship to prisoners and foreign nationals to replenish forces amid heavy casualties, with over 400,000 contracts signed last year, officials said.
- Facing manpower needs, Moscow has turned to new legal measures, making military service mandatory for foreigners seeking permanent residency as Russia avoids broad mobilization.
- Facing heavy battlefield losses, the British Defense Ministry said Moscow has relied on voluntary enlistment, with contracts topping 400,000 last year, reducing appetite for mass mobilization.
- Prisoners and migrants have been targeted through raids and traffickers luring them into military contracts, while Russian laws offer accelerated citizenship and regional authorities grant bonuses up to $50,000 in Khanty-Mansi.
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Russia offers cash bonuses, frees prisoners and lures foreigners to replenish its troops in Ukraine
Russian authorities use various strategies to recruit new troops to replenish its supply of soldiers for its nearly 4-year-old full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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