A comatose SVO member was mistakenly recognized as a deserter – Kommersant

A participant in a special military operation in Ukraine from Sukhoi Log, who was in a coma for about a year, was mistakenly recognized as leaving his unit without permission, State Duma deputy Maxim Ivanov said. According to him, he contacted the military prosecutor’s office on this issue.

As Mr. Ivanov said, since the spring of 2023, the military man had been in a coma in a military hospital in the Leningrad region due to a wound received during the fighting. His relatives turned to the deputy because they were not receiving the required payments.

“I separately contacted the military prosecutor’s office regarding the payments. There they found out that they were not going to pay our hero any allowance at all, because according to the military unit, it turns out that he was not in a coma in a military hospital, but was an SOC – who left his unit without permission,” the deputy wrote in Telegram channel.

The resolution of the issue of payments was delayed because the serviceman lost his passport in the combat zone. The authorized bodies, according to Maxim Ivanov, refused to replace the document to relatives, demanding that the owner come in person. “The supervisory agency quickly corrected the situation, and the guilty persons were given a ‘stick’. The monetary allowance was transferred to the fighter’s account in full,” the deputy said.

In January, Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov asked comment on complaints from SBO participants about delays in payments. He said that isolated cases of delays in payments to the military were inevitable due to the scale of the fighting. At the same time, according to him, the Ministry of Defense has done a “gigantic job”, “the system has been largely established.”

In March, Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov statedthat the department receives many complaints about violations committed against participants in the special operation. In particular, there are reports of delays in payments after injuries received and in connection with the conferment of state awards.

Lusine Balasyan