A dozen Russian soldiers were awarded nearly $200,000 each for helping to shoot down a US-made F-16 fighter jet in Ukraine.
The 12 servicemen were given the cash at a ceremony near the Russian-Ukrainian border after Russian oil giant, Forse, offered up the bounty last year in a bid to encourage the destruction of Western equipment, the Kremlin’s state media TASS reported Friday.
“Fores has delivered on its earlier promise to transfer 15 million rubles to members of the Russian Armed Forces for downing the first F-16 in the special military operation zone,” the company boasted in a statement.
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The 12 servicemen were given the cash at a ceremony near the Russian-Ukrainian border. Paulo M.F. Pires – stock.adobe.com
Ukraine received its first deliveries of F-16
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