The head of Chuvashia, Oleg Nikolaev, after mass complaints and a riot of mobilized people, promised to pay them a lump sum of 50 thousand rubles, and also forbade relatives to send them alcohol in parcels. The message was published in his official Telegram channel.
He stated that following the results of visiting the fighters in Ulyanovsk, at a planning meeting with the government and heads of districts, he made the following decisions:
“The relatives of the mobilized must exclude alcohol from the parcels; heads of administrations of municipalities, together with the State Committee for Emergency Situations of Chuvashia, to centralize all flows of assistance acquired through joint efforts in ammunition and equipment; to compensate for the costs of our guys for the purchase of ammunition and equipment, as well as to support those who have no families, who cannot take advantage of a wide range of measures to support the families and children of fighters, decided to pay one-time assistance to those mobilized. The amount of the lump-sum payment for each mobilized will be 50 thousand rubles. The money must be brought in as soon as possible.”
The instruction was given to the Ministry of Labor of Chuvashia and the Ministry of Finance of Chuvashia, Nikolaev concluded.
In recent months, dozens of videos have been published on social networks in which Russian mobilized from different cities of Russia complain about the poor attitude of the command, lack of uniforms and promised payments. The mobilized refuse to go to war with rusty weapons from the 1970s and without proper training. In one of the latest videos in early November, more than 100 mobilized from Chuvashia at the training center in Ulyanovsk complained about the lack of promised payments (195 thousand rubles). They also demanded that the head of the republic, Oleg Nikolaev, immediately transfer to them the 400 million rubles promised for the war and distribute them equally among the mobilized. The men collected signatures under a collective appeal – on November 3, more than 2,000 people were ready to sign the document.