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Oleg, this is shameful. Shame! Shame!
One may expect a comic of a medieval viking warrior
to go looting for household goods, but not soldiers
of a first class nation.
How dare you try to present yourselves as civilized!
from
https://news.yahoo.com/family-dead-russian-soldier-demanding-150839097.html
Family of dead Russian soldier who are demanding compensation are found
to have a Ukrainian refrigerator
Ukrainska Pravda
Mon, July 18, 2022 at 8:08 AM·2 min read
Diana Krechetova – Staff reporter, Ukrainska Pravda.Zhyttia
18 July 2022
A video has been posted about the family of a Russian occupier who was
killed by the Kremlin regime.
As part of the "Should we talk?" project, Russian journalist Irina
Shikhman made a film in which the foster parents of Ilya Vasilenko, a
Russian soldier who was killed, complain about the lack of compensation
from the state for his death. The film is called "They only gave money
for his coffin and gravestone. How does a Russian family get
compensation for the death of a soldier?"
Vasilenko’s relatives insist that he "never wanted to offend anyone",
but one detail that caught Ukrainian journalists’ attention has exposed
the Russian soldier as a looter.
Clearly visible in the footage is a refrigerator with a sticker on it
which reads "2-year full warranty" [in Ukrainian], which could have been exported from Ukraine.
Vasilenko died in Ukraine on the second day of the full-scale war. The "liberator" came to Ukraine from the village of Chunsky, in Irkutsk
Oblast. It is approximately 4,500 kilometres away from Ukraine.
As Shikhman notes in the film, the Russian authorities pay compensation
for a death only to the parents, children or wife of the deceased. In
other words, foster parents are not entitled to any payout.
"The Military Commissariat only gave money for his coffin and
gravestone. If you don’t like it, go and sue them," commented the
journalist.
While Shikhman was conducting an interview in the kitchen, the Beko refrigerator with the "2-year full warranty" sticker was captured on camera.
Ukrainians have already started making jokes about it online.
Blogger and TV presenter Ivan Marunych shared what he thinks the main difference is between a Ukrainian refrigerator and a Russian occupier:
"What’s the difference between a refrigerator and an occupier son? The refrigerator will last longer."
Read also: Police issue notice of suspicion against occupier who left a
photo of himself in the apartment he robbed in Irpin
Meanwhile journalist Vitalii Tysiachnyi noted that in trying to show the
world the family of a "simple Russian soldier" who died in Ukraine, the Russians have exposed him as a looter.
"The entire story is about the fact that the state withheld the family's payment for Cargo 200 [killed soldiers - ed.] and they only received a
handout ‘for his coffin and gravestone’. The relatives are in tears, everyone around is bad, life is hard, it wasn’t his fault, he didn’t
kill anyone, things aren’t that simple, etc.
Basically, they’re trying to drum up sympathy for ‘ordinary Russians’. But towards the end of the video, the camera focuses on the refrigerator
in this family's house, and it’s... Ukrainian. So the family of the ‘honest’ Russian soldier killed in Ukraine has a stolen Ukrainian refrigerator? Do stores in remote Siberia (Irkutsk) issue a ‘2-year warranty’?" Tysiachnyi emphasises.
Journalist Olha Karetnikova-Kotiahina called the Ukrainian refrigerator
taken to a Russian backwater by a soldier who died attacking Ukraine a
"marker of a failed nation".
Read also: Evacuation in a wheelchair: a disabled woman’s experience of escaping from the occupiers in Bucha
Journalist Viktoriia Kobyliatska suggests that instead of compensation
for the death of a Russian soldier, his foster parents have already
received a refrigerator.
"They are interviewing the relatives of the dead Russian. Saying ‘he
never offended anyone in his life.’ Of course that’s how it was. Perhaps that’s why he was brought to Russia in a stolen refrigerator? Did this refrigerator arrive later as compensation for the family? For some
reason the journalists didn’t ask about that, and that’s a shame,
because the full warranty sticker is intriguing, and it’s the only thing
that could make this failed interview truly informative," she emphasises.
According to Ukrainians, Russian journalists’ attempts to justify
Russian soldiers using Vasilenko and his family as an example are futile.
Reader comments include
A
9 hours ago
It's too bad they didn't check their bathroom to see If the toilet was
from Ukraine as well...
J
14 hours ago
I wonder just how many Russian troops will have to die before everyone
in Russia figures out that the problem is Putin.
4 replies
Atheist
13 hours ago
I have used microwave oven, bread maker, laser disk player, foot
massager, TV, rice cooker, and more. All still work and just sit in
garage collecting dust. How many Russian dead conscripts are those worth?
Rita
16 hours ago
don't do what you do...raise your own economy..grow your own grain..stop stealing..and "special operating"
Nathan
15 hours ago
The curtain has been lifted. Russia appears to be as developed as
Kenya, maybe slightly less.
Antonio Margheriti
14 hours ago
Dead soldiers' families are compensated with looted goods from Ukraine.
Can Russia get anymore miserably inadequate?
1 reply
J
Curious how the russian trolls are going to try and spin this one?
Should be entertaining!
4 replies
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