Putin orders $81,500 payment to families of National Guards who die in Ukraine
LONDON (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday ordering the cost of 5 million roubles ($81,500) to the households of members of Russia’s Nationwide Guard who died in Ukraine and Syria.
The decree amounted to official recognition that members of the guard, generally known as Rosgvardia, are among the many casualties of the warfare in Ukraine that Russia describes as a particular army operation.
The power, which solutions on to Putin, was created in 2016 to struggle terrorism and organised crime, and has been used domestically to crack down on peaceable anti-government protests.
Western analysts have interpreted its deployment from the early levels of the warfare in Ukraine as an indication of misplaced confidence that Russia would shortly seize main cities, together with the capital Kyiv, the place Rosgvardia may then be used to take care of order.
In actual fact, Russian forces have been crushed again from each Kyiv and Ukraine’s second metropolis, Kharkiv, and are actually centered on heavy preventing within the japanese Donbas area.
Putin had already introduced compensation schemes for the households of useless and wounded troopers. Russia has not up to date its casualty figures since March 25, when it stated 1,351 servicemen had been killed and three,825 wounded. Ukraine and Western governments say its toll by now’s many occasions larger. ($1 = 61.35 roubles)
(Reporting by Reuters; Modifying by Kevin Liffey)
