Putin: it is important to provide equal rights to all participants in the special operation

All participants in the special operation in Ukraine should have equal rights, declared Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Russian organizing committee Pobeda.

“It is important to provide equal rights to everyone, I want to emphasize this, to all, without exception, participants in a special military operation: both military personnel, and volunteers, contract soldiers, mobilized and law enforcement officers who take part in a special military operation,” he said.

The military personnel, as well as their families, must be provided with all the benefits and support measures required by law, the president emphasized. He also thanked volunteers and public organizations, including the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation, for their work in this direction.

In June, the president during a visit to the Central Military Clinical Hospital named after. A. A. Vishnevsky Ministry of Defense declaredthat supporting the participants of the special military operation and their families is a holy cause. Speaking at the Victory Parade on Red Square on May 9, Putin said that the future of Russian statehood depends on the participants in the special military operation in Ukraine.

In April, Putin signed a decree establishing a fund to support participants in the Defenders of the Fatherland special operation. The Fund will provide assistance to combatants in the Donbass since 2014, as well as to their families.

At the end of August, Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the head of state, said that Putin communicates not only with the command of the Armed Forces, but also with ordinary soldiers, he is interested in everything that happens in the special operation zone.