Russia: Pay Rates For Soldiers to Die in Ukraine

September 12, 2026: Russia has spent over a trillion dollars on its war in Ukraine, and much of that money went to pay signing bonuses of $50,000 or more. Currently, the average monthly wage is about $1,100. Financially, it makes sense to take the signing bonus and go off to the Special Operation in Ukraine. That worked for the first three years, but by 2026 most prospective recruits knew that over half a million Russians had died in Ukraine and anyone going to Ukraine would be dead or wounded within days or weeks, or even less than an hour once they entered the combat zone. The first thing these soldiers noticed was the ubiquity of Ukrainia…