Russia is forcing everyone in the occupied regions of eastern Ukraine to pay 14,000 rubles (£200) to pay for the war, it has been reported.
Kira Yarmysh, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny 's spokeswoman, announced on Twitter that Vitaly Khotsenko, the Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed republic, declared that 14,000 rubles (around £200) will be taken from everyone, including infants and the elderly.
The Kremlin has said they will invest more than two trillion rubles in the economy of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), within two years but it is unknown how the money will truly be spent.