Dmitry Perminov, a member of the Federation Council committee on defense, reacted to the appearance on the network of a video where in one of the military units in the Altai Territory, mobilized Russians are advised to buy women's sanitary pads as insoles in shoes, as well as tampons in order to plug bullet wounds with them. He told the Rise publication that reports of a shortage of equipment for the mobilized are fakes.
According to Perminov, this is the first time he hears that someone advises taking pads to the army.
“Why are there pads in the army? This is the first time I’ve heard about it, and when I served in the army, it didn’t even occur to me to put gaskets on.
He urged listening to Vladimir Putin, who said that all mobilized "will be provided, equipped, trained, combat coordination and will be sent to perform tasks." Perminov claims that the mobilized will be equipped with everything necessary. “No spacers needed. There are a lot of fakes now,” he concluded.
Senator Margarita Pavlova said that the issue of security for the military will be discussed at the next meeting of the Federation Council committee on defense on Monday. Commenting on the information that appeared on the network, she added that now there are a lot of provocations, "external forces are trying to stir up the situation inside the country."
On September 27, Sirena published a video in which a representative of a military unit in the Altai Territory advises conscripts to buy hydrogen peroxide, tourniquets, and ask their wives to take the cheapest pads to put in their shoes, and tampons to cover bullet holes with them. According to her, she has known this since the days of Chechnya.
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Earlier, the territorial departments of Roszdravnadzor warned the heads of pharmaceutical organizations about the shortage of dressings, hemostatic agents and hemostatic tourniquets. This was reported by Pharmaceutical Bulletin, citing an information letter and sources in pharmacy associations.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the Russian pharmaceutical industry has been facing problems on a regular basis. Earlier, the head of the scientific expertise of the pharmaceutical venture fund Inbio Ventures, Ilya Yasny, told The Insider that Russia is running out of reagents for laboratory tests. The expert predicted problems with the production of medicines and disinfectants, including hydrogen peroxide. In June, Kommersant reported that there was a shortage of subsidized medicines in hospital pharmacies. Patients lack antiepileptic drugs, blood pressure lowering drugs, insulin and hypoglycemic agents, foreign psychotropic drugs, and drugs for the treatment of thyroid diseases.