A Competition For The Russian Army, Who Can Find The First Time The West Country Tanks Can Directly Get Rp1 Billion

United States M1 Abrams Tank. (Wikimedia Commons/US Marine CorpsJoseph A. Lambach)

JAKARTA - Ukraine is preparing to receive advanced tank-tank reinforcements from the western country. But the defense equipment was instead used as a competition by Russia.

Fores, a Russian Ural-based company that makes a supplier to the energy industry has just thrown attractive offers for the Kremlin soldiers competing in Ukraine. They offered cash payments to the Russian army who managed to capture or destroy a German-made Leopard 2 tank or the US-made Abrams tank.

The company said it would pay five million rubles to the first Russian army to destroy one of the tanks, and 500,000 rubles (US$7,200) for all subsequent attacks, quoted by Channel News Asia, Monday, January 30.

Five million rubles is not a small number. If converted to rupiah currency, the total that will be prepared is around Rp. 1 billion more.

Fores also promised the same competition, 15 million rubles (US$215,000) for Western-made fighter jets, had they been sent to Ukraine.

The competition also confirmed Russia's previous message that the Kremlin would destroy the Western tanks sent to Ukraine.

The United States, Germany, and several other European countries are indeed preparing to send dozens of advanced tanks to Kyiv over the next few months. They want to help increase the military capacity of Ukraine as the war approaches a 12-month mark.

Fores said NATO plans to help Ukraine with unlimited arms shipments would even increase the conflict.

Russia has previously bombarded Ukraine with missiles, drones and bombers in a wave of Thursday's attacks, a day after the West approved the delivery of the main fighter tank (MBT) to Kyiv.

At least 11 people were killed, dozens injured, with dozens of buildings and energy facilities in various areas damaged, officials said.

Crowds took refuge at the Kyiv metro station during warnings of airstrikes were heard during rush hour, before Russia launched its latest attack on the power grid since October which caused massive blackouts during winter.

The missile attack came after last night's drone strike, one day after Ukraine received a key battle tank pledge from Germany and the United States to strengthen its troops.