Russia does not fulfill its financial promise regarding the volunteer forces fighting in Ukraine. In the long term, this will negatively affect Moscow's ability to raise volunteer forces, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) says in a report..

Analysts cite Russian military correspondents who claim that the Russian military in many units do not receive the promised financial reward. This is especially true of the "

The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) sought to establish BARS as an active reserve, recruiting volunteer reservists for a three-year contract service starting in the fall of 2021 and offering a small financial compensation of 4,000 to 9,000 rubles (approximately $54 to $122)..

Russian military correspondents also note that the bureaucracy does not allow volunteers who joined the Russian military forces in the spring and summer of 2022 to receive documents confirming their participation in hostilities and necessary to receive the promised payments.. According to war correspondents, officials must quickly solve this problem, otherwise a surge of discontent may occur among the military..

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Recall that, according to the US government, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Wagner private military company has lost more than 30,000 mercenaries killed and wounded..