Paul Goble
Staunton, Nov. 28 – The Russian government does not want to release data about or even discuss in general terms the burdens that the return of as many as 700,000 veterans will impose on the Russian Federation as a whole. But information is coming in from various federal subjects. Among the most instructive are numbers from Bashkortostan.
That Middle Volga republic, which as of now as suffered more deaths from Putin’s war in Ukraine – some 8,000 – than any other federal subjects, now faces an enormous set of burdens on its medical and psychological facilities (idelreal.org/a/v-bashkortostane-svyshe-8-tysyach-uchastnikov-voyny-i-chlenov-ih-semey-poluchili-putevki-v-sanatorii/33607855.html).
Among the most suggestive are the following:
Approximately 2700 veterans have returned to Bashkortostan so far, of whom, the republic leadership says, “almost 700 of whom” have suffered wounds which have left them with various handicaps (t.me/idelrealii/43182).
More than 8,000 veterans and their family members have been given free access to sanitariums in the republic, with the number rising from 1676 in 2023 to “more than 3,000” now. Any massive return of veterans will increase that number significantly (bashinform.ru/news/svo/2025-11-28/bolee-8-tysyach-boytsov-svo-i-ih-rodnyh-ozdorovilis-v-sanatoriyah-bashkirii-4485721).
Approximately 2500 veterans and members of their families have received psychological counseling during the first nine months of 2025. Of these, 392 were treated for PTSD (t.me/DrRakhmatullin/2652).
If one extrapolates these figures to the Russian Federation as a whole, the burdens veterans are going to impose on the medical and psychological services of the federal subjects and ultimately Moscow are going to be truly enormous, yet another aspect of Putin’s war that will cast a dark shadow on Russia for decades to come.
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