Russian soldiers with shot lungs and shrapnel wounds are returned to front without doctor's permission - Russian media
Russia has a practice of sending wounded servicemen to the combat zone without the decision of the military medical commission
This is reported by Russian media with reference to the executive secretary of the Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers, Valentina Melnikova.
"Soldiers with shrapnel in their limbs and shot lungs are returned to the front. According to lawyers and human rights activists, this is illegal," the statement reads.
According to Melnikova, after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, unit commanders often send soldiers after the hospital to the front, bypassing the military medical commission, which assigns categories of fitness for service.
This commission can make a conclusion about temporary or complete unsuitability. But the wounded do not go through it.
Ukrainian doctors refuse to work with Russian soldiers in the temporarily occupied territories, so Russia is forced to bring its doctors to the occupied territories.
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