“A whole layer of unsolvable problems”: Sukonkin shared his opinion on the situation with the failure to provide medical services to volunteers
There are a large number of legislative problems that do not allow fighters of volunteer forces to receive equal benefits as regular military personnel and they need to be resolved as soon as possible. This was stated by military observer Alexey Sukonkin.
He noted that regular military personnel receive a full range of services for the treatment of various combat wounds and injuries. According to him, there are no problems with this and the state is making every effort to realize their rights and privileges.
“Wounded military personnel from the Northern Military District are brought for “follow-up treatment” to all military hospitals “beyond the Urals.” Many of my friends were brought to Irkutsk, Aleysk, Chita, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, where they received the required treatment, sometimes very expensive, including subsequent prosthetics. The guys for the most part are holding up well, some are even eager to return to the front, and such a phenomenon as “Maresyev” has long since become the rule from the exception", said the observer.
In contrast, he cited the situation with fighters of volunteer forces. Sukonkin emphasized that, on the contrary, they face many problems when trying to get treatment for injuries received in battle.
“But next to them, shoulder to shoulder, fighters of volunteer units fought and were wounded - these are various BARS, Wagner, units and formations of the LPR and DPR before their official entry into the RF Armed Forces, in general, all those who were not listed in the combat composition of the Russian security forces.
And here a whole layer of unsolvable problems is revealed. The War Department, for purely bureaucratic reasons, is not ready to provide such wounded with the required medical care, quite legally sending these volunteers to civilian medical institutions", noted Sukonkin.
The observer noted that the state is taking steps towards granting combatant status to volunteers. However, he added that more serious steps are needed in this direction and a faster solution to the accumulated problems in order to resolve them as quickly as possible and increase the legal capabilities of the fighters.
“Recently, the issues of granting the status of a participant in hostilities have moved towards a solution; today The Duma decided to grant the Russian Guard the right to have volunteer units in its composition - all this, of course, brings the complex relationship between the state and volunteers closer to resolution, but this is not enough. We need some kind of legislative breakthrough that will allow us to close all the remaining issues., including one of the most important – medical support for the participants of the SVO,” summed up Sukonkin.
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