Since the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine, 10,257 military personnel were awarded for the destruction or capture of 16 thousand units of military equipment. declaration At the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
“There are no restrictions on military personnel receiving payment from the number of enemy equipment they have previously destroyed,” the ministry said.
According to the ministry, the army receives money on the orders of military unit commanders.
The Ministry of Defense reported that last year, more than 7,000 soldiers of the RF Armed Forces received payments for the destruction of 11,586 units of Ukrainian military equipment. In 2023, 3,193 Russian armies received payment for the destruction of 4.4 thousand units of equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
How much is paid
According to the military agency, in 2023, military pilots and air defense operators were paid 300 thousand rubles for the destruction of 71 aircraft and 45 helicopters. The ground forces, sailors and soldiers of the airborne troops received 100 thousand rubles each “for the destruction of each of the hundreds of armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.”
The Ministry of Defense pays 300 thousand rubles for the destruction of the HIMARS and Tochka-U facilities. In 2023, 15 such complexes were destroyed.
“In 2023, Russian soldiers were paid 50,000 rubles each for the destruction of 1,501 enemy armored combat vehicles, 203 self-propelled artillery installations and 85 installations of multiple launch rocket systems,” the ministry said.
The army received 50 thousand rubles each, which managed to intercept missiles or destroy a drone (1,2 thousand) from the Tochka-U complexes, Smerch, Alder, Uragan and HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems (941 missiles).
“In the Zaporozhye and YuzhnoDonets directions, payments are made to the soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces, who during the conflict destroyed Leopard tanks, as well as armored combat vehicles manufactured by the USA and other NATO countries,” the ministry said.
200,000 rubles were awarded to the military personnel of the navy, who destroyed the Ukrainian unmanned speedboats attacking targets in the Crimea.
Awards discussed with Putin
June 13, at the meeting of President Vladimir Putin with military officials Semyon Pegov (WarGonzo) declarationthat the promised payments for the crashed aircraft and tanks were not transferred to the soldiers.
“I do not know of a single soldier who would receive payment for a destroyed fortified area, for a destroyed tank. Although everything is announced, everyone knows about it and even somehow laughs a little with each other: why they promised, but there is nothing from this, ”Pegov said.
He noted that the issues of payment for injuries and deaths of military personnel were resolved “in manual mode” in the working group of the Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia Andrei Turchak.
“The non-payment of the money is unexpected for me,” Putin said. “I will definitely return to that in a meeting with the Department of Defense today.”
On June 15, Russian singers Grigory Leps and Nikolai Baskov promised to pay one million rubles for each Leopard or Leopard-2 tank overturned in Ukraine.
“Everything we can do for our Soviet army, sorry, Russian army, we will do from the bottom of our hearts. If we can sing, we’ll sing there. If we can give our warriors some kind of monetary reward, we will, ”said Leps.
His words were joined by TV presenter Yulia Baranovskaya and the leader of the Zemlyane group Vladimir Kiselev. Baskov told Fontanka.ru that the decision on the payments was a joint decision with the Ministry of Defense and the Russian Media Group.
According to the Ministry of Defense on June 15, since the beginning of the military operation, Russian troops have been carrying 9,994 tanks and other armored vehicles, 5.1 thousand field artillery and mortars, 444 aircraft, 238 helicopters, 1.1 thousand MLRS vehicles, 426 anti-aircraft guns. -destroyed the anti-tank bomb. -aircraft missile systems and other techniques.
Source: Gazeta
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