INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Russian company has offered a cash bounty of up to 5 million rubles ($71,648) for the destruction or capture of Western-made tanks
5-million-ruble bounty for the capture or destruction of the first tank, it would also pay out 500,000 rubles ($7,164) for each subsequent
Moscow Times.Last week, the governor of Siberia's Zabaikalsky region Alexander Osipov also promised a bounty of up to 3 million rubles
($42,900) for the capture of a German-made Leopard 2 tank and 1.5 million rubles (for $21,450) for the capture of an American M1
Abrams.Russian regional volunteer battalions also offered one-time payments and bonuses for the destruction of enemy heavy weaponry,
including payments of up to 300,000 rubles ($4,290) for destroying an enemy tank or aircraft.
