They’ll get up to $500,000 for a helicopter, according to the new law, which will offer a significant “incentive” to demoralized troops to surrender.
Ukraine has passed a law offering up to $1 million to Russian defectors who bring with them a fighter jet or warship.
Smaller amounts would be meted out to defectors with other sought-after equipment. Ukraine leaders aim to use the law — and the money — to capitalize on the widely reported low morale of Russian troops.
Measure 7229 also promises up to $500,000 for helicopters, $100,000 for tanks, and $10,000 for other types of military vehicles, according to the website for Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada.
A kind of shopping list from the government was posted on Twitter by Euan MacDonald, an editor-at-large for The New Voice of Ukraine. Continue Reading
