EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell held his first meeting with Defense Minister @Rustem_Umerov in Kyiv. The diplomat also honored the memory of the fallen Ukrainian military. https://t.co/oW0nOvsKTi

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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell held his first meeting with Defense Minister @Rustem_Umerov in Kyiv. The diplomat also honored the memory of the fallen Ukrainian military.

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31/ Like many other soldiers, Alexsandr has found that the Ministry of Defence will not pay him compensation for a condition acquired during service. Although he received a medical diagnosis, the MOD claimed he had developed it after his service and refused compensation.

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He says: "Before leaving, I took a certificate from the Vostok battalion; now the military registration and enlistment office does not recognize it and requires an extract from the orders and other documents."

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29/ Similarly, Pavel Bushmakin from the Kirov region fought as a volunteer in the DNR in 2014-2015 but is now encountering bureaucratic obstacles to getting any veterans' benefits.

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25/ We all withdrew whatever we could and divided it up among us so the guys could get home. That’s the way we treated one another."

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24/ They found that they had "absolutely nothing in their accounts", another volunteer says. "We were later told that the bank had lost the information of dozens of men in our battalion. I had a few thousand rubles in my account.

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22/ "Now we have to undergo all the treatment in a new way, only in a civil hospital and at our own expense".

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