Some wounded Russian soldiers find compensation elusive, despite Putin’s pledge

Putin announced the payments on Mar 3 during a meeting of his security council broadcast on national television. Two days later, he issued a decree setting out the compensation, commonly referred to among soldiers as “presidential payments.”

“Three million is such a big amount, at the end of the day. And it turned out there were too many people” who were eligible, he said. The Kremlin and defence ministry didn’t respond to questions about the reason for the rule change. At the military hospital in Rostov he received an official diagnosis: Shrapnel wound to the soft tissue of his right lower leg with damage to the muscle.

The soldier has applied to the head of his unit for the three million rouble payment, according to a copy of the July application he shared with Reuters. In late July, he said he had received the payment. The document, shared with Reuters by a relative, shows doctors stated his injuries were not included in the list referred to by the defence ministry on Apr 22.

Once he did seek treatment at a hospital in eastern Ukraine, he said, a fellow patient who was a colonel told him he would no longer qualify for the payment because of the new criteria.

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