Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ The Russian government has ordered 230,000 certificates for family members of deceased soldiers – a vast increase from the 23,716 it ordered in May 2023 and 5,777 in 2022. It likely illustrates the scale of the casualties it anticipates as the Ukraine war continues. ⬇️

2/ Russia's Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (Mintrud) has listed an order for nearly a million certificates on the Russian government's procurement portal. As well as 230,000 for family members of the deceased, the order includes 757,305 combat veterans' certificates.

3/ According to the accompanying documentation, the certificates will be distributed as follows:

– 600,000 to the Ministry of Defence
– 86,805 to the Ministry of Social Protection
– 60,000 to the Ministry of Internal Affairs
– 10,000 to the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia)

4/ – 500 to the Ministry of Construction (likely for workers engaged in trench construction works)

The Ministry of Defence will receive 200,000 of the certificates for family members of the deceased, with another 30,000 going to to the Ministry of Social Protection.

5/ The numbers are vastly greater than in the last two orders for certificates. In May 2023, Mintrud printed 95,907 certificates for combat veterans and 23,716 for family members of the deceased.

6/ An earlier order in the summer of 2022 resulted in the printing of 82,840 certificates for combat veterans and 5,777 certificates for family members of the deceased. So far, Mintrud has ordered a total of 936,052 certificates for combat veterans during the war. /end

Source:
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