However, the new measure only applies to soldiers who joined the Russian army earlier this year in May and have served at least one year at the front. In addition, the debts of these recruits and their wives must not exceed the sum of 10 million rubles (converted to 2.8 million CZK).
In addition, the forgiveness applies only to loans that those in question took out before signing the contract with the Russian army, or if the courts have already decided on the recovery of their debt, the Russian opposition newspaper Moscow Times pointed out on Telegram.
For the first time, the ruler of the Kremlin forgave Russian soldiers and their families for non-payment of loans in November 2024. Similar debt relief also applies to the families of soldiers who fell on the front or suffered serious injuries, regardless of whether they were conscripted into the army or entered into a contract, the RBC-Ukraine website pointed out.
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, the Ukrainian army was able to eliminate up to 89,000 Russian soldiers from combat in the first quarter of 2026 alone, while the Russian regime recruited only 80,000 of them during the same period, the United24 portal recalled.
