1/5 Employees of Gazprom, Russian energy giant, are being forced to chip in at least RUB 1000 (17 US dollars) each to buy medications for Russian soldiers wounded in Ukraine – due to the "catastrophic lack of supplies in hospitals". 
2/5 The guy who sent me this screenshot (authenticity checked) says that this is not the first "crowdfunding" attempt of a kind, but the first mandatory one. Everyone in the chat is obliged to provide proofs that they've sent money.
3/5 This is the chat of Gazprom security guards branch in Lena, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). There are around 100 employees in the chat, there are several chats like this in every city where Gazprom is present.
4/5 This chat message says a lot not only about the huge number of those wounded in Ukraine, but also about the (in)ability of the Russian state to treat them properly.
5/5 Read more here: svoboda.org/a/sotrudnikov-…
"Voluntary-compulsory requisition" is indeed not a new thing (incl. army itself), as well as the lack of basics in the hospitals (for everybody, before the war too). But how can a state win the war if it can't provide this for its wounded soldiers without any extra hassle?
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