At the beginning of the war, the families of the Russian soldiers who died in battle could receive relatively generous benefits, such as Lada car vouchers, and Russia even launched a recruitment propaganda film that you can buy a car for yourself when you go to the battlefield, and the sales of Lada cars have skyrocketed, which also directly shows the situation of the Russian army on the front line. However, as the pension payments of the pension groups that support Putin the most have begun to decrease, the pension treatment of the Russian wounded has naturally been greatly reduced.
Oleg Rybkin, a conscription from the Volgograd region, was denied payment of 3 million rubles after being wounded, and his wife, Irina, told ** that 45-year-old Rybkin was called up to the front on September 25, 2022, just four days after Russia announced its partial mobilization.
The summons was given to Rybkin, who was working, and two hours after arriving at the enlistment office, he was taken to the shooting range without a medical examination. The training lasted about three weeks, and by the end of October 2022, Rybkin was already in the trenches on the front line.
Although he didn't have much training, Rybkin was unharmed until June 2023, when he was injured near Lobodine, Zaporizhzhia, with a blow to the abdomen, damage to his liver and kidneys, and a complete destruction of his entire right knee joint, which was at the beginning of the Ukrainian army.
The doctor recommended a knee replacement, but he received a local bereavement of two buckets of carrots and a bag of onions, and the promised 3 million rubles were nowhere to be found.
His wife said indignantly"You've taken a healthy man away - then give me back the way you took him off. - Instead of losing a leg at the ball, he was hit by a shrapnel and his internal organs were damaged!They haven't dealt with these dirty injuries yet!But the most important thing now is to save his leg. His leg has been atrophiing since June. ”
This is the truest portrayal of Putin's statement that Russia cannot abandon the wounded like temporary workers in Ukraine.
In fact, in the more impoverished ethnic minority areas of the Far East, the receipt of a bag of frozen dumplings or other frozen goods as a pension for the fallen Russian soldiers has long appeared.
It is not surprising that the wounded soldier did not receive a full pension, as the Russian statistical office reported that the Russians' pensions were reduced by 07%, the first decline since May last year, and this group of pensioners is also Putin's iron plate, the so-called Great Russian nationalists, including people like Girkin. The decline in pensions is related to the continuous decline in the wages of Russians, "inflation is too high, and even in the face of a clear shortage of labor, the company's financial situation is no longer reliable and it is not possible to raise wages quickly".