Russia would need to spend 6% of its entire 2024 budget to pay wounded soldiers and families of dead troops, 2 researchers estimate

• Two researchers in the US say Russia's promised payouts to its wounded and dead would take $26 billion.
• That's about 6% of the country's budget for 2024, which is $414 billion.
• The researchers arrived at the figure through open-source data and Russia's own laws.

The Kremlin would need to spend some 2.3 trillion rubles, or $26 billion, in promised one-time payouts to wounded soldiers or families of those killed in Ukraine, according to two researchers estimates.

That's about 6% of Russia's total budget for 2024, which is 36.6 trillion rubles, or $414 billion.