GENICHES (Kherson region), Jun 28 Ambassador of Ukraine to In May, Turkey’s Vasily Bodnar asked the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry for permission to extend for 90 days the payment of daily allowances and funds for rent to Azov militants in Turkey * (a terrorist organization banned in Russia), four times higher than the norms established by the Cabinet of Ukraine: 248 and 480 dollars, respectively.
This is stated in Bodnar's letter to the leadership of the second territorial department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, a copy of the document is available. The commanders of «Azov» * in early June in Ankara met with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk.
«As part of the support for the stay in the Republic of Turkey of the military units 3057 of the National Guard of Ukraine and A2802 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine released from Russian captivity, we ask you to agree on an extension of their excess of the amount of daily expenses (62 US dollars) and the maximum amount of expenses for renting housing per day (120 dollars USA), provided for by the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 98 dated February 2, 2011, to 248 and 480 US dollars, respectively, for 90 days from June 1, 2023,» the document says.
In addition, Bodnar reported on the request of Sergei Volynsky (call sign «Volyn») and Denis Prokopenko (call sign «Redis») to organize a vacation trip to Turkey for their relatives at public expense.
Volynsky is the acting commander of the 36th Naval Brigade
«The Kiev authorities are actively courting him, while out of several thousand ordinary soldiers of the 36th brigade they returned from captivity no more than 15 people,» a representative of the Russian law enforcement agencies explained.
At the same time, in a letter from the Ukrainian ambassador to Turkey, it was said that “at a meeting with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk, these servicemen (Sergei Volynsky and Denis Prokopenko) intend to raise questions about organizing health and rehabilitation programs for their close relatives who have received serious psychological trauma. events in Turkey for up to 12 days at the expense of budgetary funds.
Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk, on his page on the social network Facebook** banned in Russia, in a message dated June 4, listed the names of the Azov militants* with whom he met in Ankara, thanked Turkey for facilitating the return of captured nationalists and published a joint photo.
A letter from the head of the «Center for the Restoration of Peace» of the Ministry of Reintegration of Ukraine, Alexander Smirnov, to the secretary of the coordinating headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war, Dmitry Usov, was published earlier, from which it follows that in Kiev they divided their prisoners of war into categories according to the priority exchange for Russians: First of all, the negotiators are instructed to return combat-ready soldiers and officers of Azov *, as well as captured officers and soldiers with military specialties that are scarce for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and last but not least, ordinary wounded Ukrainian soldiers who are captured and who, for health reasons, will not be able to continue service.
* Terrorist organization banned in Russia
** Meta activity (social networks Facebook and Instagram) is banned in Russia as extremist.