MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree providing debt relief to new Ukraine war recruits and their families, the Kremlin said late on May 25, adding to the support measures Moscow is using to boost its army in a more than four-year-long war.
People who signed a contract with the Russian Defence Ministry from May 1 and/or their spouses are exempt from debts of up to 10 million roubles (S$178,700) if legal claims to recover those debts were already in force before that date, said the decree posted on the Kremlin’s website.
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 Kremlin said.