Russian Women Increasingly Pushing Husbands and Even Ex-Husbands to Join Russian Army as Bonuses Rise, Studies Find

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Dec. 2 – According to a survey conducted by the Greetings. You’re a Foreign Agent telegram channel, increases in the amount of bonuses offered to those who join the Russia army to fight in Ukraine have won the Kremlin an important ally in its effort to fill the depleted ranks of its army there: Russian women.
    The survey found that ever more Russian women have become interested in pushing their husbands or even their ex-husbands (from whom they receive alimony) to join the military because of the large and increasing bonuses that Moscow and the regions are offering those who sign up (t.me/privetinoagent/653; discussed at holod.media/2024/12/02/sposob-otpravit-muzhej/).
    The telegram channel reached this conclusion on the basis of examining how many people asked the question “how to send a husband to war” on the Yandex news portal. In the second half of 2023, about 200 such queries were registered each month. Now, the number of such questions has risen to “approximately 5,000 monthly.”
    Beginning in October when the size of bonuses exploded, Russian women also began to ask “how to send an ex-husband to war,” the telegram channel reported, a finding also noted by researchers at the Scythe portal (kosa.media/2024/12/rossiyanki-stali-chashhe-iskat-kak-otpravit-muzhej-i-byvshih-na-vojnu/).