If Wladimir Putin If he needs cannon fodder for the front, any means is acceptable to him. Recently the Russian President signed a law according to which Russians who are in financial difficulties should be lured into war. Anyone who signs up as a recruit for a year will have their debts forgiven. From the bank, at the behest of the Kremlin.

Debt-free into the trenches: a new cynical cruelty in this war so rich in cynical cruelties. The law also draws attention to the Russian Raiffeisenbank, a 100 percent subsidiary of Raiffeisenbank International (RBI), which is still in… Russia operates and serves 3.3 million customers there. The RBI does not want to comment on the debt relief for new recruits, which will apply from December 1st. But in the past she had supported similar requirements – such as temporarily suspending loan installments for soldiers. As a Russian bank, it was “legally obliged” to do this, it was said at the time.