The Volunteer Reserves Campaign in the Russian Federation - ISW

Russian military bloggers predict the "explosion" of dissatisfaction among the reservists of the Russian Federation because of problems with payments. The Kremlin does not fulfill the financial promises of volunteer forces, which is likely to have a negative impact on the ability of the Russian Federation in the future to form them. Analysts of the American Institute for War Study (ISW).

Russian military bloggers complain that the Russian Federation does not pay compensation to Russian combatants in many units. This is especially true of the elements of the military reserve of the Russian army (Bars). The amounts of debt have already come up here.

Military bloggers say that Russian officials should solve these problems in the near future, otherwise there will be a "explosion" of dissatisfaction, and the Russian General Staff should be punished for such a handling of BCC personnel, since the current reserve was an initiative of the Russian General Staff.

"The Kremlin's disinterest in the wages of volunteer formations can destroy any incentives among Russians to sign contracts with the Russian MO during or after the war because of the growth of distrust of the promised financial incentives materialized," the analysis said. The Institute's analysts believe that the Kremlin's inability to create and support the formation of a leopard also indicates that the Kremlin is unlikely to create effective voluntary reserves - in war or peacetime.