Putin orders financial benefits for people arriving in Russia from Ukraine
August 27, 2022, 6:39 pm

Putin orders financial benefits for people arriving in Russia from Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets young entrepreneurs in Moscow on June 9, 2022. (File photo: AFP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday (August 27) signed a decree introducing financial benefits for people who left Ukrainian territory to come to Russia, including pensioners, pregnant women and disabled people, according to Reuters

The decree, according to the report, published on a government portal, establishes monthly pension payments of 10,000 robles ($170) for people who have been forced to leave the territory of Ukraine since February18.

It said, disabled people will also be eligible for the same monthly support, while pregnant women are entitled to a one-off benefit.

The decree says the payments will be made to citizens of Ukraine and the self-styled Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics - two breakaway Russian-backed entities in eastern Ukraine that Moscow recognized as independent in February in a move condemned by Ukraine and the West as illegal.

Russian invasion of Ukraine - Photo. Euromaidan Press

On February 18, Putin ordered every person who arrived in Russia from Donetsk and Luhansk to be given a payment of 10,000 rubles.

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Moscow has been giving Ukrainians Russian passports in what Ukraine and the United States say is an illegal effort by Moscow to annex territory it has occupied as part of what they regard as an imperialist Russian land-grab.

Moscow says it is prosecuting “a special military operation” to protect itself and defend Russian-speakers who it says were persecuted by Ukrainian authorities, something Kyiv denies.

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