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It's 175 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine.

And in Russia, President Putin has brought back a Soviet era reward for Russian mums

if they have 10 children.

In order to combat population decline in Russia, women are being offered a one-off payment

of a million rubles, around 16 and a half thousand American dollars and a medal.

Population decline because of casualties, they've experienced during the war and because

people are leaving Russia.

And these women will also get the honorary title of Mother Heroin.

Now that is a title first used by Joseph Stalin for mums who had 10 children after the

country suffered many, many casualties during World War II.

Dr. Jenny Mathes, an expert in Russian affairs, spoke to the BBC's Woman's Hour about the

impact this might have on the Russian population.

It's absolutely typical, actually, of the Putin regime, to look to the past to try and

find solutions to the problems of the present in the future.

There is no real, kind of, forward-looking vision in this leadership.

It's very much about, well, let's see what Stalin did.

You know, let's see what happened 50, 60, 100 years ago.

Let's do that.

And I really don't think this is going to be terribly effective for today's woman in Russia.

This is Ukraine cast.

Ukraine cast from the east.

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