The State Duma will hold a meeting on assistance to participants in the special operation

State Duma deputies next week will discuss the issues of providing assistance to participants in the special operation in Ukraine, reported Chairman of the lower house of parliament Vyacheslav Volodin.

“Next week there will be a meeting with deputies of the State Duma on the issues of providing assistance to participants of the Northern Military District in order to achieve the tasks set by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin,” Volodin said (quoted by TASS).

The State Duma speaker called for everything to be done to ensure that soldiers and officers have everything they need and that “bureaucracy and inconsistency” do not interfere with this. Volodin clarified that we are talking about obtaining technical means of rehabilitation, providing medical, social and other assistance.

The topic of supporting combatants affected September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin. During his speech at a meeting of the Presidium of the State Council on the development of the labor market in Veliky Novgorod, he stated that all measures to develop the labor market are connected, such as, for example, programs for improving the qualifications of women on maternity leave, and participants in a special operation who need to be supported in finding employment.

“We need to do everything possible to make our heroes – in the full sense these are heroes, our guys who are fighting on the front line – feel that they are in demand, can work, can provide for their loved ones, their families, create these families,” he added . The President asked the governors to personally monitor these issues.

Deputy head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma Andrey Isaev told Vedomosti previously reported that laws relating to participants in special operations are adopted almost every session; there are already several dozen of them. In particular, the deputy explained that the bill on insurance of volunteers will make it possible to prescribe specific rules that equate volunteers with mobilized and other participants in a special military operation in matters of insurance.