Let's see now. Russia paying Syrian fighters $7,000 to fight in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukraine paying Russian soldiers $47,000 to defect and they will place you in a third country. What could go wrong there? “We offer Russian soldiers a choice: to die in an unjust war or full amnesty and 5 million rubles [$47,293] in compensation, if they lay down their arms and surrender voluntarily,” Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov said on Twitter.