Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Rosgvardiya (Russian National Guard) personnel who were wounded by Ukrainian shelling at the start of the war are being denied compensation because the Russian authorities say they can't prove a link between their injuries and their war service. ⬇️

2/ The independent Russian news website Dovod ('Argument') reports that a military court in Vladimir has ruled against three Rosgvardiya personnel – Vadim Nosov, Ivan Tezikov and Vagif Vidadi-oglu Abdullayev – in their claim for compensation.

3/ The three entered Ukraine "to perform special tasks" on 24 February 2022, the first day of the invasion, as part of of the Nevsky OMON (riot police) of the Rosgvardiya Directorate for the Vladimir Region. They were injured by Ukrainian mortar fire on 3 March.

4/ The Rosgvardiya had an extremely hard time at the start of the invasion. As a lightly armed paramilitary law enforcement organisation, its intended role seems to have been to impose order in conquered Ukrainian cities. Instead, it got shot to pieces.

https://twitter.com/DanieleRaineri/status/1524354378324402178

5/ Five senior officers serving with the Vladimir SOBR (Special Rapid Response Unit) and one OMON warrant officer were reportedly killed in a mortar attack 30 km east of Kharkiv on 3 March. It's likely that the trio in this case were in the same convoy.

6/ Nosov, Tezikov and Abdullayev appear to have suffered traumatic brain injuries, likely the result of nearby explosions. They experienced "severe headaches, heaviness in the head, pain in the cervical and lumbar spine, blurred vision, poor sleep, and dizziness."

7/ The court says that they "sought medical assistance at the Ministry of Defence's field hospital, but due to the lack of need for surgical operations, the plaintiffs were given medication and asked to seek medical assistance upon arrival at their permanent duty station."

8/ "After coming back from a business trip, Tezikov, Nosov and Abdullayev applied for medical help at the medical department of the Russian Interior Ministry in the Vladimir Region, where they were treated in a hospital."

9/ However, the Vladimir Rosgvardiya Directorate refused to pay them any compensation, declaring that "the circumstances, date and time of the injuries were not documented" and were supported only by eyewitness testimony.

10/ The court ruled that they had failed to prove "the existence of a causal link" between their participation in the war and their injuries. They were also unable to benefit from Putin's decree awarding 3 million rubles for an injury as it came into force only on 5 March 2022.

11/ The case comes against the background of complaints from Russian soldiers that they are being cheated out of compensation payments because medical units are deliberately misdiagnosing or not certifying their injuries. /end

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1658540047140888576

12/ Source:
dovod.online/sud-otkazal-v-…