Russian region offers huge cash reward to recruit foreign fighters

A Siberian region is paying people a record $18,000 commission to find foreign nationals to join the war in Ukraine.

A region in Siberia called Irkutsk is offering a massive reward to anyone who can sign up foreign citizens to fight in the war in Ukraine. The payment is 1.8 million rubles, which is about $18,000 in U.S. dollars. This is being offered as a commission to people who act as recruiters. This move comes as Russia struggles to find enough soldiers for the front lines. Military experts and observers say Russia is currently using a 'culture of lying' to hide the true scale of its losses and difficulties. Rights groups, including Amnesty International, have criticized these recruitment tactics. Th…