Russian Occupiers Whose Houses Were Flooded Are Denied Compensation Due To Not Being At Home

And those who tried to return from the front to help their families are punished.

Sending Russians to the front is a “legitimate reason” not to pay for their flooded homes, officials decided. The We Can Explain Telegram channel learned about several such cases.

The authorities of the Orenburg region refused to pay the mobilized husband of Anastasia from Buzuluk (250 km from Orenburg), she said. Their family's house was flooded to the roof. The husband has not been released from the front since the autumn of 2022. The reason for the refusal of compensation was “failure to confirm the fact of the applicant’s residence in the residential premises.”

“Many people were turned away because they were not at home at the time of the flooding, they were participating in the Special Military Operation. The husband is registered in the house and is the owner,” Anastasia told We Can Explain. The rest of the family members still received the payment (RUR 20 K).

The son of Natalya from Orsk, a contract soldier, was also refused. On April 5, the house where he was registered with his family, in the Old Town area, sank (in the lower photos). The parents turned to the MFC for payment for themselves and their son.

“The woman in the window said that her son was not allowed to. My son doesn’t live with us, but is participating in the Special Military Operation. They are talking complete nonsense,” the woman is indignant.

Some mobilized tried to return from the front to help their families, according to messages in military chats.

On April 9, in one of the groups, a mobilized man from Orsk wrote that his commander would not let him go on leave to help his parents, whose house had gone under water: “I am at the limit, in despair. If I leave arbitrarily, they will start a criminal case, I won’t be able to help my parents.” The right to leave due to a natural disaster is expressly stated in the Law “On the Status of Military Personnel.”

Two weeks later, in the same group, his friend asks how to rescue a comrade from the storm squad: “Despite the ban on vacations, he left, did household chores and returned. Now there are problems, they transferred him to a unit with stormtroopers, and they want to send him to the worst place ever. A direct transfer to HELL, just for slaughter.”