RIA Novosti interviewed frustrated soldiers who were injured while fighting in Ukraine and didn't receive the compensation promised by Vladimir Putin.
A report published by Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti on Tuesday titled"We didn't expect this," features interviews with frustrated soldiers who were injured while fighting in the war in Ukraine and didn't receive the compensation promised by the Russian president.
Russian authorities have prohibited media from calling Putin's invasion of Ukraine a"war"—state-run media outlets adopt the term"special military operation," which RIA Novosti has done in its report. But in April, Russia's defense ministry published a statement on its website saying that to be eligible for compensation, injuries sustained needed to be among those on an official list—a move that came as reports emerged that Russia wasSergey Abramov, a resident of Krasnoyarsk who was sent to fight in Ukraine's contested Donetsk region toward the end of 2022 after three months of training, told RIA Novosti that he was shell-shocked, hospitalized, and subsequently diagnosed with mine...
RIA Novosti noted that human rights activists have sounded the alarm over Putin's presidential decree differing from the official list published by the defense ministry weeks later.
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