Estimates from researchers in the U.S. in July suggested that the Kremlin faces eye-watering costs for its payouts to troops injured in the war in Ukraine.

Summary

Russia has cut compensation for troops injured in Ukraine, limiting full payouts of 3 million rubles ($30,000) to those with severe, life-threatening injuries.

Soldiers with minor wounds will now receive reduced payments between 1 million ($10,000) and 100,000 ($1,000) rubles.

This change comes as Russia faces escalating war expenses, with casualty compensation costs estimated at 2.3 trillion rubles ($26 billion) by mid-2024.

High personnel losses have led to recruitment efforts funded by regional social welfare budgets, diverting resources from vulnerable populations, raising concerns about future mobilization efforts and public discontent.

    • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 days ago

      This is why monospaced serif typesets are programmer’s best friend. That and they look cool.

      Or for the numbers, whatever typeset they use for marking airport runways.

      • humorlessrepost@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Especially ones with awesome ligatures, like FiraCode. Feels so weird when I’m not on my computer and I see raw multi-character symbols like != and =>