Russian Company Offers 5M-Rouble Bounty To Destroy Western-Made Tanks in Ukraine

A Russian business is offering a five million rouble ($72,000) bounty to the first soldier who destroys or captures western-made tanks in Ukraine.

What Happened: Fores, a Urals-based company, announced a cash prize for the first Russian army personnel who would destroy German-made Leopard 2 or U.S.-made Abrams tanks in Ukraine, reported Reuters.

The announcement comes after the U.S. and its European allies announced that they were lining up to send dozens of advanced combat tanks to Kyiv over the next few months. 

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Russia has vowed that its forces would wipe out the western-made tanks if the U.S. and other countries shipped them to Ukraine. 

Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticized the decision, calling it a dangerous war escalation and said the tanks would “burn” on the frontlines.

Meanwhile, former prime minister of the U.K., Boris Johnson, claimed that Putin threatened him with a missile strike in a call just before the invasion of Ukraine.

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