In St. Petersburg, for the second time in a month, the payments for concluding a contract with the Ministry of Defense were reduced, Fontanka reports. Now the one-time payment is 800 thousand rubles, of which 400 thousand are allocated by the city and another 400 thousand by the Ministry of Defense. In mid-October, the authorities already reduced the payment in the city from 3.5 million to one million rubles, while maintaining the same amount for drone operators. Now Smolny's hotline calls for the amount of 800 thousand rubles, regardless of the type of soldiers, although in one of the regional recruitment centers additional payments to drone operators were allowed.