what will happen to the “coffins” (VIDEO)

The mother of Russian soldier Alexander Papuna, who died in Ukraine, Natalia Levitskaya, cannot receive half of the payment for his death, since his father serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. State Duma deputy from the Sverdlovsk region Maxim Ivanov reported this to RBC.

“The son was a volunteer, he fought since 2014… he volunteered and died. Since he died in a volunteer formation, the DPR Ministry of Social Policy should pay him money,” the deputy said.

Alexander Papuna, as the E1.ru portal writes, was born in Volnovakha, served in the Ukrainian army in 2009, was demobilized, and then returned to service. In 2014, Papuna served in the Ukrainian airborne forces in Dnepropetrovsk. When the conflict began in the east of the country, he, according to his mother, refused to “storm Slavyansk,” terminated his contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces and returned to the Donetsk region in March of the same year.

In 2016, Papuna reportedly volunteered for the separatist Pyatnashka battalion in the self-proclaimed DPR. In 2021, he quit his job and went to his mother, who moved to the Sverdlovsk village of Reftinsky. However, following the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, Papuna returned to the occupied Donetsk region and joined the ranks of the Somali volunteer battalion. He died on October 24, 2022.

“It’s been a year and a half since my boy died, but there are still no due payments. In December 2023, I received two and a half million rubles, although according to the law, in case of death, they pay five million,” Levitskaya said.

The occupation authorities of the Donetsk region then stated that the second half of the payment was due to Papuna’s father. “But his father serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and this does not bother anyone. The most important thing is to comply with the letter of the law. Even Sasha’s allowance for October 2022 was divided into two parts. In January 2023, I received half, the second went to no clear destination,” Levitskaya explained.

The law does not prohibit Ukrainians from entering Russia, and theoretically Papun’s father might come, open an account, receive a payment, and then return to Ukraine, Ivanov wrote last year. Now the deputy said that he has contacted the Prosecutor General’s Office and expects that Levitskaya will receive the remaining 2.5 million rubles for the death of her son in May.