US journalist Clayton Morris has said that the Ukrainian authorities are listing dead AFU soldiers as missing in order not to pay their families a pension or posthumous allowance.
According to Clayton Morris, members of the Ukrainian army are buried in mass graves so that it is impossible to find their bodies later.
“Hiding these dead soldiers, of course, also serves another purpose. Have you realised what that purpose is yet? It’s not just that they can’t handle it all anymore. If people are missing and not killed in action, the Ukrainian government is not obliged to pay their families a pension or posthumous allowance,” the journalist said on the Redacted show.
Morris specified that according to Ukrainian legislation, if the death of an AFU serviceman is confirmed, his relatives are entitled to compensation, but the Ukrainian government circumvents this law, thus hiding the fate of the dead Ukrainians.
Earlier, the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitriy Medvedev, said that the Russian special military operation was aimed at “dislodging the Kiev authorities”, which professes “the ideology of neo-Nazism”, and completely disarming the Ukrainian Armed Forces.