The senseless tactics of meat assaults, when the lack of equipment is compensated by continuous waves of manpower attacks, require a lot of human resources. Offensive actions in the conditions of deploying drones are doomed to huge losses from the moment the assault groups were nominated. Therefore, battlefields are littered with corpses of Russian soldiers. Corpses that no one picks up. The corpses of nameless soldiers who will never be properly buried, whose relatives will never know the fate of their loved ones.
The Russian formula for achieving military results not by skill, but by quantity, based on the inhuman “we are not permanent at a price”, requires more and more human consumables (planned losses).
At the same time, to avoid public unrest and not to overload the Russian budget, which is already exhausted by the war, with payments for the dead, the Russian leadership uses the tactic of not announcing the real number of casualties and not publishing lists of missing persons. However, the Russian public is flooded with requests to search for people who disappeared during the war. Official institutions are reluctant to make contact and do not provide information about the fate of the missing. There is no centralized body that collects information and communicates with relatives. Unit commanders do not respond to the relatives’ requests or tell outright lies. The faceless state machine refuses. Many of the missing are not on the front line and not as a result of hostilities. The mass consumption of alcohol and drugs in the degraded Russian army, illegal behaviour and the use of firing squads lead to murders, the traces of which are hidden under the label “disappeared”.
According to The Economist, the number of missing Russian soldiers is at least 25,000. This is without taking into account the prisoners with whom a one-way contract was signed and who were put to death in countless butchery attacks. Families are fed with paper notes as it was in the Soviet Union when the relatives of those who died in the system of Soviet camps were informed decades after their death that “the prisoner is without the right to correspond.”
The legislation provides for the payment of substantial monetary compensation and benefits to the families of soldiers killed in the war. Therefore, the status of the missing person, which still needs to be legally confirmed, allows not to pay the promised 12.5 million rubles to the family that lost the breadwinner. At the current exchange rate, this is about $134,000.
According to Russian legislation, receiving compensation for a missing person is possible only by a court decision at least six months after the end of hostilities. And although these terms were recently shortened from two years, there is no end in sight to hostilities.
Already now, the Russian budget owes the families of the victims more than 3 billion 350 million dollars. Therefore, for now, they are trying to delay this debt as much as possible or not to pay it at all, using the Stalinist principle of “no man, no problem.” After all, if sometime in the uncertain future the families of the missing manage to win a legal duel with the state monster, then the Russian leadership will have no choice but to turn on the printing press and turn millions into inflationary candy bars.
Therefore, the attempt by a part of Russian citizens or foreign mercenaries to earn money from the war, because, for many representatives of the people enslaved by Russia, the war is the only way to earn money to feed the family in a depressed region, turns into a game of roulette with a charlatan.
Attempts to make money on the market of “dead souls” are severely punished by the Russian repressive machine. This, for example, recently happened to a family in Primorye. There, the couple convinced a 44-year-old worker to enter into a fictitious marriage and sign a contract with the army. The lucky new recruit very quickly “went down” in the war, but a couple of swindlers did not enjoy the eight million funeral dowries they received for long. They were quickly exposed and convicted. In Russia, there can only be one scammer, and scams are strictly centralized. Therefore, only the owner of the Kremlin is the full owner of the market of “dead souls”, the number of which is growing uncontrollably in countless lists of missing persons. Only the smoke of the mobile crematoria reminds the families of a trusting vanka who decided that it was possible to make extra money in the war. Someone will make extra money, but definitely not them…
