The other day, as part of the “report” of the so-called “Crimean branch” of the “Defenders of Fatherland” (“Zashchitniki otechestva”) fund, through which the Kremlin launders funds “to help veterans” of the aggression against Ukraine, it was stated that “143 participants of the special military operation who have become disabled live in Crimea: 9 – of group I, three of whom require constant and long-term care, 69 – of group II, and 65 – of group III”.
These figures are quite remarkable, since from open sources, according to various methods of expert calculation, it follows that at least a thousand Crimean residents were killed at the front as the aggressor’s “cannon fodder”.
For example, in Kerch alone, the “heroes’ stand”, recently updated by the occupiers themselves, contains 61 items.
It is obvious that the number of injuries causing disability in any war is usually no less, and sometimes more, than the number of those killed, and this striking discrepancy, especially for the seriously wounded, that is, “disabled persons of the first group” has several possible explanations.
Either on the occupied peninsula, legless and armless Crimeans who returned from the front cannot receive any “disability documents”, or the aforementioned “fund” simply does not have information about their real number.
It is also extremely likely that people who received injuries at the level of “second and third disability groups” from the aggressor’s army are generally not “demobilized”, and therefore do not end up on the “rear register” until their “heroic death”.
Well, and we should not forget about the low level of aggressor’s frontline medicine, which has been repeatedly described by a number of experts, in which a significant portion of the seriously wounded simply do not survive on the way to the field hospital, not to mention the “rear” Crimean institutions.
In any case, the functionaries of “Defenders of Fatherland” who are “tightly hooked on the flows” are of little interest in the realities of Russian aggression, including the recent cry of despair noticed in social networks regarding the aforementioned “heroes’ stand”: “61 people for our little Kerch, and how many are missing in action… let this terrible war end!”
