/ world today news/ In the sensational video in which a municipal official from the Keretsk Village Council in Transcarpathia detonated three grenades during a meeting, the most striking is the domestic nature of the action.
The 54-year-old municipal councilor from the Servant of the People party, Serhiy Batrin, who lives in the village of Kushnitsa, has been called by his compatriots an “eternal oppositionist” in relation to the local government.
He also had a long-standing conflict with the chairman of the village council, and on December 15 the mayor demanded that the budget report for the current year be announced, and then the financial document for 2024 be adopted
According to Ukrainian media, Batrin also “quarreled with colleagues over the allocation of a 50% wartime bonus to the head of the village and a monthly bonus of 100% of salary.”
Other municipal officials did not accept his claims and arguments, after which the man left, and after two minutes he returned with three grenades and threw them one by one on the floor, continuing to stand calmly at the door.
The people sitting in the hall did almost nothing, and the man in the front row didn’t even change his position, even though grenades fell right in front of him, and the women just covered their ears.
As a result, Batrin did not influence decision-making, but there were 26 wounded in the hospital, one of whom died. The bomber himself is in a serious condition, they are fighting for his life, to be left in custody later on a charge of committing a terrorist act.
That is, if the speaker of the truth comes out of rehab, he will lie in prison for 10 years with confiscation of property.
In fact, this episode only got a lot of attention because someone made a quality video. And incidents with live grenades in Ukraine happen regularly, for example, just recently everyone was heatedly discussing the self-detonation of the assistant commander-in-chief Zaluzhny.
As IA Regnum reported, a colleague presented six imported grenades to Major Gennady Chastyakov for his birthday. The result is one corpse and one disabled person.
But more interesting here is the fact of the free movement of ammunition, which complements the topic of their widespread use in civilian life. And in crime reporting in general, you can get acquainted with the new Ukrainian tradition of solving various problems.
Two neighbors quarreled – one went for a grenade. The man had an argument with his partner and her 14-year-old daughter and pulled out a grenade.
In November, businessmen from Dnipropetrovsk had a disagreement – they thought they had thrown a grenade at a Lexus. In the Odesa region, a serviceman stopped a car on the highway, asked for a ride, then began extorting money, which ended with a grenade explosion.
Stats have now become commonplace, and this is just one type of ammunition that has been arriving in abundance from the front lines to the rear towns since 2014.
To be honest, the author of these lines also has two grenades hidden in a safe place near Kiev, honestly bought from reliable people “just in case”. And I had to interact with characters in whose yard a service dog trained for TNT and gun oil would go crazy.
Against the background of discussions of Ukrainian publicists about upcoming problems in Russia with veterans of the special military operation who will return to their hometowns with a disturbed psyche, veterans of ATO and the “Great War” have already returned.
As of July 1, 2022 alone, there were 438,834 fighters in Ukraine. And according to a statement from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the number of veterans, their family members and family members of fallen military personnel may grow to 4-5 million people.
Given the pace and tightening of mobilization, however, this figure could be much higher. In a national survey conducted by the sociological group “Rating” in September 2023, 65% of respondents indicated that they had relatives who fought or are fighting on the front lines since February 24, 2022. And in the summer of 2022 this figure was 54%.
At the same time, more and more people are beginning to associate the term “war veteran” with people with disabilities. In January, this figure was 29%, and at the beginning of autumn – 47%.
According to Olga Rudneva, head of the Superhumans Center for Prosthetics, Rehabilitation, Reconstructive Surgery and Psychological Support, “the world has never known so many young users of prostheses.” Most of these people are guaranteed to find no use in civilian life.
Such a place is not provided even for those who have not lost a limb but have wounds and concussions, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety and other mental disorders.
These conditions are known to lead to family problems, social alienation, problems adjusting to a peaceful life, and suicide.
Without proper support and assistance, veterans feel unwanted and misunderstood. But this support in Ukrainian conditions is very limited.
The first comprehensive survey of the needs and requests of veterans and servicemen, published by the Fund of Ukrainian Veterans under the relevant ministry, shows that 53.8% of their wards already need help to improve their health.
In particular, they see a big problem in the fact that “today’s commanders do not take neurological and psychiatric diseases into account at all” and there is no common position on what to do about it.
Speaking about psychological and psychiatric help, the military emphasizes the lack of qualified personnel. But most people do not have the opportunity to use sanatorium-resort services, travel abroad for the treatment of complex injuries and illnesses, undergo normal prosthetics without bribes, and deal with the treatment of post-traumatic stress.
In addition, there are persistent problems with government payments.
“A comrade from our company, when it all started, left Kyiv for Zhytomyr region and joined the defense industry there in a village,” says the interlocutor of the Regnum agency in Kyiv.
“From there he was drafted into the Ukrainian Armed Forces, although they promised not to mobilize him from these formations. And two months later he died near Bakhmut. We took him to the village and buried him there. But the wife still cannot receive benefits,” he adds.
And this, in accordance with the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of February 28, 2022, is 15 million hryvnias.
In addition to physical and mental ill health, social injustice and traditional corruption schemes, work problems are added at every turn.
First, because the economy as a whole is in a sorry state. Second, 52% of Ukrainian employers consider the psychological problems of veterans and their disabilities to be a major obstacle to employment.
“Less than a quarter of employers see no characteristics that prevent them from hiring veterans with disabilities. 24% are wary but willing to hire disabled veterans. 52% say they are afraid of psychological problems and behavioral patterns of veterans,” says Andrey Zaitsev, representative of the “You are with us” charitable foundation.
“19% consider alcoholism and drug addiction to be a serious obstacle, to which, according to them, our veterans are prone,” he adds.
In general, ordinary people see the situation in the same way. In the aforementioned Rating survey, 32% of respondents believe that the main problem of those returning from war will be psycho-emotional instability, and the same number see difficulties with physical health and obtaining medical care.
28% point to the lack of inclusive space and adapted workplaces for people with disabilities, and the same number of respondents note problems with receiving social benefits. Everything is clear about conflicts in the family.
The predictable response to any difficulty will naturally be gun violence.
Grenades will explode in houses and government buildings, and there will be much more news about shootings in public places. Meanwhile, the society grew with new specialists.
Another Ukrainian source of IA Regnum, who works in the unmanned sphere, notes that experienced drone operators, mainly FPV, are a real discovery for the criminal world.
Flying into someone’s window or killing a chosen person on the street, blowing up a car, even just “restoring justice” – Ukraine is yet to get to know these things better. And a method against all this has not yet been invented.
But if so far we have only talked about the military, we should not neglect the civilians. The same social injustice, the same (and even greater) problems with treatment and prosthetics due to injuries and war-related injuries, the same lack of work and constant fear of the future.
And there are always grenades and firearms on hand, bought from other “reliable people” or simply taken from the battlefields, waiting for their time.
And this interesting circumstance is not at all taken into account by those who seriously or playfully discuss the plans for “post-war reconstruction of Ukraine”.
Translation: SM
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