Ukrainian soldiers will receive additional financial rewards for carrying out combat missions in Russia, Taras Melnychuk, representative of the Ukrainian government in Parliament, announced on November 15.

The update primarily applies to those currently participating in combat in Russia. Kursk Oblast. kyiv launched a surprise offensive on Kursk in August, and although Russian forces have reconquered about half of the territory initially lost, fighting continues.

The Cabinet of Ministers amended two resolutions regarding payments to military personnel, extending the regulations to troops serving in the military forces. Russian territoryaccording to Melnychuk.

Ukrainian military personnel operating in Russia during martial law will receive an additional monthly payment of 100,000 hryvnias ($2,400), proportional to the time spent on combat missions there. They will also receive a lump sum of 70,000 hryvnias ($1,700) for each 30 days of combat, calculated cumulatively.

Soldiers and officers of the State Emergency Service, the Special Operations Department of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and police officers carrying out missions in Russia will also receive the bonus of 100,000 hryvnias ($2,400).

Additional payments of 100,000 hryvnias ($2,400) will be made to soldiers injured while serving in Russia. In the event of death during a combat mission in Russia, the soldier’s relatives will receive a one-time payment of 15 million hryvnias ($363,000).

Ukrainian forces are currently almost resisting 50,000 Russian soldiers in the Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in mid-November.

The Kursk incursion aimed to thwart a Russian plan to invade Sumy Oblast in order to create a “buffer zone” in northern Ukraine and keep Russian forces away from the front that has been steadily advancing into the oblast from Donetsk, the Ukrainian army reported.

According to Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi, Russian forces lost 7,905 soldiers killed, 12,220 wounded and 717 captured during the three months of the Kursk offensive.

Russia prepares 50,000-strong offensive to try to push Ukrainian army out of Kursk oblast

Over the past week, Russia has been marshaling its forces in what appear to be preparations for a decisive offensive in Kursk Oblast. “The situation is evolving every day. Not so long ago we were on the offensive, and now we are on the defensive,” a 35-year-old artilleryman from