Russians offered £500 for each kilometre of ground gained in Ukraine

Russian recruits are offered £500 for every kilometre of ground they gain in Ukraine as Putin desperately tries to find more men willing to fight without resorting to another unpopular mobilisation

  • An advertisement in Russia’s Yaroslavl region promised £530 for every kilometre
  • It comes as a country-wide recruitment drive aimed to avoid repeat mobilisation

Russian recruits are being offered hundreds of pounds for every kilometre of ground gained in Ukraine, according to state advertisements.

One advertisement posted by a council in the Yaroslavl region promised a £3,100 sign-up bonus and an extra £530 for ‘each kilometre of advancement within assault teams’.

The advertisements offering recruits cash incentives have appeared on Government websites and social media accounts of libraries and high schools across Russia.

It comes as Vladimir Putin desperately tries to avoid another round of unpopular mobilisation – the last of which saw tens of thousands of men fleeing the country.

The Yaroslavl advertisement also offered a monthly salary of £2,000 plus £80 a day for ‘involvement in active offensive operations’. 

It comes as Vladimir Putin desperately tries to avoid another round of unpopular mobilisation – the last of which saw tens of thousands of men fleeing the country

Enlistment offices are working with universities and social services to entice students and the unemployed to sign up for the military, with makeshift recruitment centres popping up in cities and towns.

But Russia analyst Kateryna Stepanenko questioned whether the recruitment drive would be successful. 

She told the Telegraph: ‘They’ve already recruited a significant proportion of people that were financially incentivised. And they struggled to do that last year.’

Putin announced Russia’s first mobilisation since the Second World War on September 21 last year.

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said at the time that some 300,000 additional personnel would be drafted.

But the mobilisation proceeded chaotically with many highly publicised cases of call-up notices going to the wrong men. 

Hundreds of thousands of men also fled Russia to avoid being drafted into Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

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