The #Moscow city government announced Tuesday that it will offer newly enlisted contract soldiers an extra one-time payment of 1.9 million rubles ($21,783) as #Russia continues to face an acute manpower shortage in the war on #Ukraine.
“Therefore, the total amount of payments for a contract soldier... will amount to over 5.2 million rubles ($59,616) for the first year of service,” the mayor’s office said in a statement.