Handing over a Russian fighter jet to Ukraine could net a Russian defector US$1 million; a helicopter, 500,000 and a tank, 100,000. The 1er Last April, the Ukrainian parliament passed a law to offer defectors monetary rewards, the amount of which varies according to the Russian military device brought back.
The person responsible for this law is the Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament, Oleksandr Kornienko. According to him, it could be “an additional incentive for the occupiers to lay down their arms”. In the text published on the website of the Ukrainian Parliament to dissect law no.oh 7229, the politician explains that he is betting on “the demoralization of the army of occupation and the incomprehension of the soldiers about the meaning of the reason for which they are dying” in order to promote his proposal.
Rewards are offered in US dollars and are available for different types of gear. Deserters who bring in a “first or second tier” ship will also be worth US$1 million, while infantry fighting vehicles are worth 50,000 and other military vehicles 10,000. According to Oleksandr Ornienko, he s This is an opportunity for Russian soldiers to “rebuild” their financial situation.
Attracting deserters by offering them rewards has been a strategy used by the Ukrainian government for several weeks now. On February 28, four days after the start of the war, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov issued a Facebook post in which he offered financial rewards to deserters. “We offer Russian soldiers a choice: die in an unjust war or full amnesty and five million rubles in compensation if they lay down their arms and surrender voluntarily,” he wrote. The amount proposed today is equivalent to approximately 74,000 Canadian dollars.
On March 22, the adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Minister Victor Andrusiv reported that a Russian soldier would have surrendered to the Ukrainian army with an assault tank. The soldier will receive “US$10,000 at the end of the war and will have the possibility of applying for citizenship [ukrainienne] “. Andrusiv also said he was living in “comfortable conditions”.
The adviser explains in his publication the methods used to attract deserters: “The national police have identified the telephones used by the Russians. […] On these phones, we regularly send SMS to indicate how to give up and hand over the material. The soldier, nicknamed “Misha”, would have answered the call.