Russian officials are lured to the occupied territories of Ukraine by monthly payments

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree on the monthly payment of 30,000 rubles to officials of Russian state bodies in the occupied territories of Ukraine, except Crimea. The document is posted at on the official portal of Russian legal acts.

The document refers to employees of the territorial branches of Russian state authorities – it excludes employees of local administrations – who work in the occupied parts of the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Kherson regions.

The decree also does not apply to Russian officials who receive double salaries during “official business trips” to the occupied parts of four Ukrainian regions, as defined by Putin’s decree of October 2022.

Earlier, the Russian ministry of education proposed to also double the one-time payment to Russian teachers who move to work in villages and small towns in the occupied parts of the four Ukrainian regions.

Russia’s Zemsky Uchitel programme introduces a one-million-ruble reward for teachers who move to work in villages and towns with less than 50,000 inhabitants anywhere in Russia, except for the Far Eastern Federal District, where the reward is two million rubles. The draft resolution of the Russian ministry of education contains the same provision for the occupied villages and small towns of Ukraine, a two-million ruble payment.

As Occupied reported in August, Putin signed a decree on compensation payments to the families of the Russian Investigative Committee officers killed and wounded in the occupied territories of Ukraine.