Russia will pay 5 billion rubles to war veterans in Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense wrote urgently a new law
- Anna Pushkarskaya
- BBC
The Ministry of Defense in 2022 proposes to allocate 5.01 billion rubles from the Federal budget to the share of the population of “a special working operation on the territory of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic from February 24, 2022.” They receive the status of combat veterans and payments in accordance with the amendment to the law “On Veterans”, the draft of which was published on February 28.
Draft amendments to the law “On Veterans” Irako Main Military-Political Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The law contains a list of “states, cities, events and periods of hostilities involving citizens of the Russian Federation.” Now it will have a new position “Special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR from February 24, 2022.” Its participants receive the status of veterans and the right to “measures of social support in creating conditions, the implementation of their decent life, active work, honor and respect in society”
For these purposes, the Ministry of Defense proposes to spend 5.01 billion rubles in 2022, as set out in the explanatory note to the report
According to the law, veterans and disabled people are entitled to pensions, benefits, housing care, utility bills, medical care and other benefits.
The law “On Veterans” notes wars and hostilities involving the USSR and the Russian environment from the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922.
The draft law on the status of combat veterans in Ukraine was published on February 28 – already on the fifth day after they began paying a monthly fee for five times the maximum amount of contribution to the law with the position “Performing special tasks on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic: from September 30, 2015.” But then the contribution to the State Duma is not so fast – almost a year after the start of the operation – in May 2016. Payments to combat veterans on medical issues in the same year occurred in the amount of 967.8 million people.
On February 24, the President of the “Meeting of the Federation Council” of February 22 adopted a decision of the Russian Defense Ministry. Some act served as the basis for replenishing the corps of a Russian veteran, the Ministry of Defense did not apply revisions in the documents. In the case of Syria, this reason was federation council council in the assembly of the armed forces of the Russian Federation outside its borders, adopted in 2015 on the day the troops were received in Syria. However, on February 22, the decision of the Federation Council was made in two days. Both decrees (2015 and 2022) are used for Putin’s purposes, but neither of them indicates in what condition and in connection with what the senators allow the military to be sent. At the same time, the text and details of Putin’s decision adopted on February 24, to which the Ministry of Defense refers, are not available in the operation.
The procedures envisaged for submitting the draft to the State Duma are completed in two weeks: independent anti-corruption expertise – on March 6, public discussion on March 14, after which it can be agreed upon and discussed in the State Duma.