First bonuses for destroying, capturing NATO tanks to be financed from Trans-Baikal budget
In the Trans-Baikal Region, mobilized residents receive a lump-sum payment of over $2,100 each
CHITA, January 31. /TASS/. The government of the Trans-Baikal Region intends to use the regional budget to finance the first payments for capturing or eliminating NATO tanks during the special military operation, the region’s Governor Alexander Osipov told the Rossiya-24 TV channel on Tuesday.
Earlier, he signed a decree which provides for compensation ranging from 100,000 rubles (over $1,400) to 3 mln rubles (more than $43,000) for participating in the elimination or capture of NATO tanks. The maximum payout will be provided to any serviceman who captures an operating Leopard tank. That said, the document recommends troops contain their bravery if it jeopardizes the implementation of combat tasks.
"We’ll see what happens - whether these payments will happen, what their volume will be. I think that there are definitely funds in the regional budget for the first payments. If it suddenly turns out <…> that a lot [of tanks] are being burned, in this case we’ll see and get [residents] involved," the governor said.
In the Trans-Baikal Region, mobilized residents receive a lump-sum payment of 150,000 rubles (over $2,100) each. Additionally, the families of the special military operation’s participants in the region are exempt from paying kindergarten fees while schoolchildren receive subsidized hot meals.