MOSCOW. Nov 14 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised the one-off payment to special military operation participants disabled by an injury or trauma to 4 million rubles.
"To order that, in case an injury (a wound, a trauma, or a contusion) sustained by a person entitled by the order of the president of the Russian Federation to a one-off payment in case of an injury (a wound, a trauma, or a contusion) causes disability, such person shall be entitled to a one-off payment of 4 million rubles, including the one-off payment at the time such an injury (a wound, a trauma, or a contusion) is sustained," Putin said in his executive order published on the official website of legal information on Thursday.
Putin tasked the government on Wednesday with considering a diversified approach to one-off payments to injured special military operation participants. Later on, the government issued a statement, according to which servicemen with severe and minor injuries and other traumas will receive 3 million, 1 million and 100,000 rubles, respectively.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists later that the payments would be raised for all special operation participants whose injury led to disability since February 24, 2022.
"That is, the order has a retroactive effect," Peskov said.
"The president is sure that this decision is absolutely correct and fair," he said.
Putin often meets with injured special military operation participants, "and those conversations have led to the decision formalized by the presidential order," Peskov said.
Putin spoke with the heads of all relevant departments before signing the order and "had a detailed discussion of the implementation of those decisions," Peskov said.