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Russia: Complaints against Defense Ministry over Ukraine war

In four months, from January to April, more than a million Russian citizens have complained to the Russian President’s Administration about the Ministry of Defense, a number that far exceeds the number of complaints voiced by Russians over the past six years. the website “Vaznie istorii”.

According to the calculations made by the journalists of this website, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the number of complaints made by Russian citizens to President Putin about the Ministry of Defense has increased six times, and in fact one in four complaints concerned the Ministry of Defense. Most of the complaints about the Ministry of Defense were filed in April, reaching 624,000, a number higher than the complaints lodged in the previous three months.

According to the website “Vaznie istorii”, the Russians are more concerned about how the military offices work, (in April they expressed similar complaints to the Russian president 83,500 times). Then, based on the list of services, follows the military service (78,900), the permanent service (75,600), the compensation service of the permanent (67,700), the service of utilization of the Armed Forces abroad (55,700) service of compensation of veterans ( 41,700), prisoner and missing person search service (41,700).

According to the website’s calculations, the Ministry of Defense is not willing to respond to these complaints. From 2016 until today it has given satisfactory answers for only 3% of the complaints that have been expressed during this period.

The newspaper Novaya gazeta. Europe wrote that conscripts from Muscovites complained about police raids on their homes, where after arresting them they took them to the conscription offices demanding to undergo a medical examination. Human rights activists point out that forcible transfer to conscription offices and medical examinations is illegal.

Relatives of the soldiers, who served on the warship Moskva, had stated that the Ministry of Defense did not provide information on the missing. According to the official announcement of the Russian Ministry of Defense, due to the sinking of the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, one member of the crew lost his life, while 27 are missing. At the same time, the newspaper Novaya Gazeta.Europe managed to talk to the mother of a surviving conscript. She said about 40 crew members had been killed in the war in Moscow. A source on the Meduza website, which is close to the command of the Black Sea Fleet, had stated that 37 people died on the ship and 100 were injured.

Source: AMPE

Source: Capital

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