Military commissar in Russia’s Yakutia promises cash payments to mobilized citizens

In Yakutia, mobilized Russian citizens will be given funds from 205,000 rubles ($3,401) per month. The amount depends on the position and military rank, Yakutia’s military commissar Aleksandr Avdonin said at a briefing, Report informs referring to Russian media.

He noted that the mobilized are equal to contract employees and receive the same amount of payment.

Avdonin said that, first of all, citizens who completed military service no more than three years ago and who have military service skills are called up for partial mobilization.

“All citizens who are registered with the military and do not have legal grounds for granting a deferment are subject to mobilization. Citizens are notified and collected in Yakutsk. Then we will send the guys to military units established by the Headquarters of the Eastern Military District,” the military commissar specified.