RUSSIAN REGIONS SLASH PAYMENTS TO FAMILIES AS BATTLEFIELD LOSSES REACH RECORD LEVELS
RUSSIAN REGIONS SLASH PAYMENTS TO FAMILIES AS BATTLEFIELD LOSSES REACH RECORD LEVELS Russian regional governments are cutting or abolishing supplementary payments to the families of soldiers killed in Ukraine as mounting casualties, war spending and budget deficits overwhelm local finances. Saratov reduced its payment from one million rubles to 100,000. Samara abolished its regional payment […] The post RUSSIAN REGIONS SLASH PAYMENTS TO FAMILIES AS BATTLEFIELD LOSSES REACH RECORD LEVELS first appeared on The Zambian Observer .