In Bashkortostan, the families of the mobilized began to receive the first payments for the participation of conscripts in the war in Ukraine. But instead of the payment of 200,000 rubles promised by the Russian authorities and the salaries of "recruits", they receive a penny.
So, the wife of Sergeant Sergei Putenikhin, who was mobilized on September 27,told the local publication Ufa1.ru that the family of the serviceman received a payment of 1,845 rubles 45 kopecks. “After almost a month of being there, the mobilized [came] a salary. Laughter through tears. Thank you, the family is provided for,” she says. The money goes to VTB cards, which were issued to those mobilized at the training ground. How to live on them, the family does not know.
Dania Vakhitova, a mother of three children, who lives in Sterlitamak, said that she received about 1,800 rubles – this is the salary of her husband, a junior sergeant, who was also mobilized on September 27. “He didn’t sign the contract, and they didn’t tell him anything about the salary. They just took it away and they didn't say anything. We are trying to appeal [these illegal actions] in connection with the instructions of the General Staff,” the woman says.
Relatives of conscripts are going to complain to the head of the republic, Radiy Khabirov.
The operator of the hotline for mobilization said in response to questions from the publication that families should contact the Ministry of Defense, a single settlement center. “Most likely, not everything has come yet,” they said there.
This is far from the only case. So, in the Tyumen region, payments turned out to be even more modest. The mobilized received a one-time payment of 759 rubles.
“My husband told me about the payment of 759 rubles, he received an SMS about admission. They were still on the train at that time, on their way to the Crimea. He said that almost everyone received such a sum, but for someone nothing at all. Everyone there is in shock, everyone is worried about their families, because many have children, loans, mortgages. I said not to worry that I would figure everything out, ”said the wife of one of the conscripts, Lyubov Zvyagina.
At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin today, October 19, again promised money for participation in the war and called the amount of monthly payments to the mobilized – 195 thousand rubles.
