'It's Beneficial to Them to Consider Him Missing' - Russian Soldier Says Moscow Hides Frontline Deaths to Avoid Compensa

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‘It's Beneficial to Them to Consider Him Missing’ – Russian Soldier Says Moscow Hides Frontline Deaths to Avoid Compensation

INTERCEPTED CALLS HUR RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES
‘It's Beneficial to Them to Consider Him Missing’ – Russian Soldier Says Moscow Hides Frontline Deaths to Avoid Compensation
A Russian serviceman says that the Russian Defense Ministry conceals the true status of its soldiers in order to avoid paying them monetary compensation.

by Kateryna Zakharchenko | April 9, 2024, 11:40 am | Comments ( 1)

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/30781

"SNIP...........

Moscow is concealing the fact that its soldiers have died at the front line in Ukraine to avoid compensating their beneficiaries, a Russian serviceman says in an intercepted telephone conversation published by Ukraine's Military Intelligence service (HUR) on Friday, April 5.

“They keep telling me the same thing: he is still alive. He is not listed as missing, he is not wounded,” a soldier tells someone who appears to be a comrade. “And I say, well, why doesn't he get his salary then? I say it was paid to everyone but not to him. I say, why are you making a fool of me?”

In the call, the Russian soldier says that the Kremlin counts a soldier “missing” rather than dead to avoid paying compensation.

“I say, it's beneficial for you to tell me he is not missing, so you don't have to pay for him…You know, we haven't heard from him for a month and a half,” the soldier adds.

.........SNIP"