Russian soldiers and officials stationed in Ukraine will no longer be required to declare their incomes, the Kremlin said on Friday as part of a waiver of anti-corruption laws, as Moscow ramps up its incentives to go to war, AFP reported.

“We are talking about those who operate in (four) territories,” Kremlin spokesman Dmytro Peskov told reporters, referring to the four Ukrainian regions (Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia) that Moscow says it has annexed but does not control fully. and where most of the fighting is now taking place.

On Thursday evening, the Russian government published President Vladimir Putin’s decree on the “peculiarities” of anti-corruption rules “for individual citizens during a military special operation” in Ukraine.

According to the decree, military personnel, employees of the militia and security services operating on the territory of Ukraine, as well as other officials seconded to it, cease to be “obliged to provide information on their income, expenses and property.”

The measure also applies to the “wives and minor children” of the relevant persons and is retroactive to February 24, 2022, the date of the start of the offensive in Ukraine.

In addition, the specified persons are now entitled to receive “rewards and donations” if they are of a “humanitarian nature” and “received in connection with participation in a military operation” in Ukraine.

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