May 26 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree providing debt relief to new Ukraine war recruits and their families, the Kremlin said late on Monday, adding to support tools as Moscow seeks to boost its army in more than four-year-long war.
People who signed a contract with the Russian defence ministry from May 1 and/or their spouses are free from their debts of up to 10 million roubles ($139,700) if a legal claim to collect those debts was in force before that date, the decree posted on the Kremlin’s website said.
The contract to join the ‘special military operation’ – what Russia calls its February 2022 invasion and occupation of Ukraine – should be signed for at least one year, the…