16,000 war veterans in LPR, liberated areas to get May 9 benefits

More than 16,000 veterans of the Great Patriotic War living in the Lugansk People’s Republic and its liberated areas, are entitled to Victory Day benefits, the LPR Labour and Social Policy Ministry said.

“War veterans in the LPR and the areas which had not been under LPR control as of February 19, 2022 will also get financial aid,” the Ministry said. 

Benefits will be paid to the following groups:

War veterans and disabled Great Patriotic War veterans;

persons decorated with the medal “For Defense of Leningrad,”  the badge “Besieged Leningrad Resident,” and the medal “For Defense of Sevastopol;”

persons commended for meritorious services to the Motherland

former child prisoners of concentration camps, ghettos, and other detention facilities.

certain other groups of citizens.

“Benefits will be paid at the offices of the LPR State Bank and the LPR Post state unitary enterprise by May 9,” the LPR Labor and Social Policy Ministry said.

The full text of the LPR Council of Ministers resolution on paying Victory Day benefits to WWII veterans in the Lugansk People’s Republic in 2022 is available on the Ministry’s website.

Earlier, the LPR government set the amount of Victory Day benefits.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation to protect Donbass residents from Ukrainian aggression. Earlier, LPR and DPR Heads Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin asked the Russian leader to provide military assistance. As of now, some 80 percent of the LPR territory has been liberated.

The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014.  The peace talks participants have announced ceasefire more than 20 times since the autumn of 2014. Kiev forces regularly violated the truce opening fire with large caliber artillery, mortars and tank guns which were to have been withdrawn from the contact line under the accords. *i*t