MOSCOW, March 22 A group of senators and deputies from the United Russia faction submitted to the State Duma a draft law on granting the status of combat veterans to participants in a special military operation in Ukraine and Donbass, the corresponding document was published in the Duma electronic database. law enforcement agencies performing tasks in the course of a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics.00:46Moskalkova recalled that Russia protects everyone from nuclear warIt is noted that the measures include monthly cash payments, housing and communal and other benefits, and support is also provided for family members of veterans and disabled combatants. The financial and economic justification for the bill specifies that the implementation of the initiative will require additional funding from the federal budget, which, according to preliminary estimates of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, will amount to about 5 billion rubles in 2022. The government of the Russian Federation supported the initiative, according to the recall of the Cabinet of Ministers attached to the package of documents bill. Changes are made to the law «On Veterans». The initiative was initiated by senators Andrei Turchak, Viktor Bondarev, Alexander Karelin and Vladimir Kravchenko, as well as deputies Andrei Kartapolov, Vladimir Shamanov, Dmitry Sablin and Andrei Krasov. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. DPR and LPR Europe will still thank Russia for the operation in Ukraine, the State Duma said
