Psychological War: Russian soldiers promised awards for the destruction of NATO tanks - the media

This approach, according to NYT, will not only strengthen the Military Spirit of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, but also conduct information and psychological operations in the future to undermine the confidence of the event in Ukraine. The other day it became known from the information that she recently leaked from American secret documents, which the Russian military promises to pay premiums for the destruction of NATO tanks.

This was reported by New York Times on Sunday, April 9, citing its own sources. In particular, it is known that among the recent "leakage" of the Pentagon data there is information about Russian methods of preparation for the use of Ukraine's advanced Western tanks, which supplies NATO. In order to raise the morale in the units of the army of the Russian Federation fighting in eastern Ukraine, they offer awards to the military, which will be able to damage or destroy one of these tanks.

Also, according to the publication, the Russian military urges to record destroyed military equipment on video to conduct information and psychological operations to reduce the confidence of the event in Ukraine.

"Financial incentives will be offered for the capture and destruction of foreign tanks, and videos of tanks will be widespread in order to undermine the trust between Ukraine and the West and to convince Russian troops of their ability to overcome this new weapons," the document under the stamp "is quite secret".

The publication notes that the Russian strategy for combating new tanks has been hidden in a large number of US intelligence documents that leaked through video games, and in recent days they also got to various social networks. Officials from the United States have stated that the documents were legal, although at least one tenth of secret reports have been changed.