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- Russia's offering a new $22,000 signing bonus to military recruits in Moscow.
- Russia's military has suffered a high rate of injuries and deaths in Ukraine.
- The Kremlin is offering lucrative contracts to replenish numbers.
Russian authorities are offering a $22,000 payment to Moscow residents signing up to join the military in a new attempt to offset high rates of deaths and injuries among soldiers in Ukraine.
The Moscow city administration said new recruits who sign a contract with the Russian Defence Ministry will receive a bonus of 1.9 million rubles, or about $22,000.