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More younger Russians should be trained to fight in Ukraine so the government has to pay less in way of compensation when they are killed in action, a pundit has argued.

Dmitry Puchkov, translated by Julia Davis, told Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda: “It will turn out that those trained 18 year olds will have to be sent to the front to take part in combat instead of calling up 40 year olds with a higher education, a business, a wife and three children, whose death at the front will cause the necessity of paying a pension to the wife, to the children, etc.”

He admitted his claims sounded “cynical” but insisted “there is no way around it”.