Moscow. August 9. INTERFAX-Russian Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova held a meeting on the innovative system of financing the army in wartime, which will be tested at the Zapad-2021 exercises, during a working trip to St. Petersburg, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.
"The meeting discussed the issues of the functioning of the financial support system in wartime, which will be worked out during the strategic command and staff exercises "West-2021", the ministry said.
According to the ministry, at the moment, military financiers have worked out the issues of accrual and payment of monetary allowances to ensure the mobilization deployment within the framework of the "West-2021". They also considered the issues of financial support for conditionally formed military units.
At the meeting, the Deputy Defense Minister set the task of interacting with the territorial bodies of the Federal Treasury, field institutions of the Bank of Russia, commercial banks in providing the personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with payments in various conditions, both in Russian rubles and in foreign currency.
Earlier, Shevtsova reported that a completely new, innovative scheme of financial support for troops during the transition from peacetime to wartime has been developed. It will make it possible to ensure uninterrupted financing of troops in various conditions of the situation in wartime, including in the absence of stable communication channels, power supply interruptions.
