Russia takes desperate measures to get troops to fight in Ukraine

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The Russian Defense Ministry is reportedly offering cash bonuses to incentivize forces withdrawn from northeastern Ukraine to reenter combat operations. Radio Svoboda published images of a document on April 10 that it reported was issued by the Russian Ministry of Defense on April 2 offering specific bonuses for Russian troops in Ukraine.[1] The document specifies large payments including 300,000 rubles for destroying a fixed-wing aircraft, 200,000 for destroying a helicopter, and 50,000 for armored vehicles and artillery. Radio Svoboda stated the payments are intended to coerce units withdrawn from the Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions to reenter combat. We have previously reported several instances of Russian soldiers refusing orders to return to Ukraine after being pulled back.[2]

Russian forces are implementing increasingly draconian measures to conscript previously ineligible personnel. The Ukrainian Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) reported on April 10 that Russian forces are now conscripting previously ineligible categories of people, including those with childhood disabilities and workers in protected industries.[3] The GUR reported that DNR/LNR authorities are enabling traffic inspectors to issue on-the-spot conscription notices and are establishing checkpoints on key highways. DNR and Russian military police are additionally reportedly destroying documents granting exemptions—such as medical records or work certificates—to forcibly conscript people.[4]
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The Russians continue to move around the troops they have scrouged up in various locations in eastern Ukraine.  Long columns have been seen on some roads similar to the one that was hammered trying to supply the Russian forces near Kyiv earlier in the war.  These could become targets for Ukraine forces. 

See, also:

Another Russian colonel killed in Ukraine invasion: Reports

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 More than 18,000 Russian soldiers have been killed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian armed forces. This includes the destruction of 147 aircraft, 134 helicopters, 657 tanks, and thousands of other vehicles. Russia has been less vocal about its casualties, though its intermittent estimates are much lower than Western figures, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov recently admitted "significant" losses of troops in Ukraine. At least 14,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed, Moscow claimed in late March.

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