That's about 6% of Russia's total budget for 2024, which is 36.6 trillion rubles, or $414 billion.
They arrived at a total of 400,000 wounded or dead, including 100,000 soldiers killed.
AdvertisementThe cost of the one-time payments would be a "staggering amount," they wrote.
Still, it's not clear if Russia has consistently been rolling out its one-time payments to its wounded or its deceased soldiers' next-of-kin.
Russia plans to spend nearly a third of its total 2024 budget on defense, or about 10.8 trillion rubles, which is $122 billion.
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