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The authorities of the Volgograd region have found a way to compensate for the injury of a (Russian) mobilized

Exclusives Yesterday, 07:55 Author: Alexey Vasiliev

On New Year's Eve, the wife of mobilized Oleg Rybkin, Irina from the Volgograd region, received two buckets of carrots and a bag of onions as a gift from the administration. In this way, the authorities noted the serviceman’s merits. He himself was injured and needs knee replacement surgery, but the procedure is not performed on him.

Rybkin, 45, was mobilized on September 25, 2022, just four days after Putin announced his conscription to the front. The man received the summons right at his work at TeploEnergoSystems. He was given the requirement to appear at the military registration and enlistment office at 9 a.m., and at 11 a.m. the man was already taken away. There was no medical examination at the test site, Irina Rybkina told the Moscow Region. A week before receiving the summons, the man contracted Covid. The training lasted about three weeks. By the end of October, Rybkin was already in the trenches.

In June, Oleg found himself near the village of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region. It was in this area that one of the main stages of the Ukrainian counteroffensive took place. The soldier was wounded in the abdomen, liver, kidneys and legs. The right knee joint was destroyed.

The man’s first operation was performed in a local hospital, then he was transferred to a hospital in Sevastopol. There he underwent abdominal surgery, but his knee joint was left untouched. Oleg underwent rehabilitation in hospitals in St. Petersburg. The military medical commission established the mobilized category "G" (temporarily unfit).

After rehabilitation and leave, the untreated mobilized was returned to his unit. A month later he was sent home again, but for 30 days. All this, Oleg was in unbearable pain and his leg was in sharp pain. “He has severe pain, his knee cannot straighten, and he cannot walk without crutches. She’s on painkillers and sleeping pills,” the woman tells MO.

Traumatologists in the Volgograd region recommended that the mobilized man undergo a knee replacement procedure. But such an operation is unprofitable for Oleg’s command, Irina claims. In this case, the soldier will have to be written off, paid 3 million rubles in compensation and assigned a lifelong pension.

“What vegetables, what gifts, do I need to replace my husband’s joint and get him discharged! The Ministry of Defense doesn’t want to change me, they send me to a sanatorium. It is not profitable for them to have a joint replacement: if they do, then they must be given category D, and this is completely unsuitable for military service, plus pay a lifetime pension, like a military serviceman, and a larger payment. Today he saw the surgeon and said, now you’ll go to a sanatorium, work out your leg and be ready to go to the front. When he was in St. Petersburg for rehabilitation, they stopped working on his leg, because it doesn’t work out, he has bone fragments there, they need to be removed and a joint replacement done,” says the woman. Now the man is in the unit, moving only on crutches.

Buckets of vegetables are the only help the family has received from the state so far. “They called me and said that you are supposed to. I was at work, they brought my mother-in-law. The administration obliges local farmers, those who grow it here, to help, in quotes,” said Irina MO. Last year, a woman and her son were invited to the Christmas tree, and they were also given a sweet gift from the Ministry of Defense, but only in March.

Source: https://pointmedia.io/story/658a86cda509d9dd53cad114