Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Seriously injured Russian soldiers are reportedly being dismissed from the Russian army, likely so that the Ministry of Defence does not have to pay their medical bills. The experience of one member of Chechnya's Akhmat special forces unit provides an illustration. ⬇️

2/ 25-year-old Oleg (pictured above) was a police officer before joining Akhmat at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He was trained at the Russian Special Forces University in Gudermes before going to fight in the Luhansk region.

3/ After only two months, he was severely wounded and was sent back to Russia for several operations. However, he found that he had not been paid his full salary. To make matters worse, when he left the hospital he returned to his unit only to be told he had been dismissed.

4/ This was despite the fact that he had been given a category G (temporarily unfit) rating under which he was supposed to be retained in service. A military lawyer says: "They had no right to dismiss him until his 'G' category was over."

5/ Oleg complains that he "was not issued all the relevant documents, I was not properly provided with medical assistance for rehabilitation and I was not given a VVK (medical commission) for the payment of insurance benefits." He received no help from the military authorities.

6/ Oleg says that he had to undergo treatment on his own expense and seek disability registration. "And I am not alone, there are many of us," Oleg says. /end

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