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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Samya Kullab and Elise Morton

Moscow offers debt forgiveness to new recruits and AP sees wreckage of a new Russian missile

Russia Ukraine War - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law granting debt forgiveness to new army recruits who enlist to fight in Ukraine.

The measure, whose final version appeared on a government website Saturday, underscores Russia’s needs for military personnel in the nearly 3-year-old war, even as it fired last week a new intermediate-range ballistic missile.

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