More than one-third of the Russian Federation’s national military personnel spending on Ukraine funds survivor benefits to relatives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers already killed in combat. That’s more than the Kremlin spends on paying live soldiers salaries or on bonuses to recruit new ones, recent data published by two independent Russian analytical groups said. Death benefits account for about 38 percent of the some $70 billion Russian taxpayers shell out to maintain a 700,000-man army