The proposal for budget expenditures for 2025-2027 shows that the Russian authorities have set aside 90 billion rubles for one-time payments to conclude a contract with the Ministry of Defense. This is 30 billion rubles annually.
Currently, the federal one-time payment for entering into a contract is 400 thousand rubles.
If the payment is not changed, the promised 90 billion rubles will be enough to recruit 225 thousand contract soldiers in three years. But it is worth noting that 400 thousand is the amount that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin set on July 31, 2024, previously it was 195 thousand.
If 195 thousand rubles are paid for concluding a contract, as before, this will make it possible to recruit 461.5 thousand people.
The planned amount in the budget may increase, because in the first half of 2024 alone, the Russian authorities have already spent more than 32 billion rubles on one-time payments to new contract soldiers, which is more than what was budgeted for the whole of next year.