INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
shelling out some 2 billion rubles ($22 million) per day on sign-on bonuses for new recruits alone.The figures, based on official data from
the Finance Ministry and regional budgets, were compiled by Janis Kluge, a senior associate at the German Institute for International and
their annual budgets to the recruitment campaign
The remaining 500 million rubles ($6.1 million) come from the federal budget.Despite a slowdown in increases of sign-on bonuses across the
country, recruitment levels remain consistent with late 2024, with an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 new soldiers joining the Russian military
each day.The average one-time bonus offered to recruits across 37 Russian regions currently stands at about 1.4 million rubles (around
appears sufficient to replace estimated daily frontline losses, as NATO officials currently assess Russian casualties at roughly 1,000
troops per day.Meanwhile, spending on recruitment infrastructure has ballooned fivefold since April 2024.If these trends continue, the total
enlisted roughly 440,000 contract soldiers in 2024, or an average of 1,200 per day, experts warn that it will be increasingly difficult to
sustain this pace.George Barros, the head of the Russia team at the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War, estimates that Moscow may
