The Ministry of Defense will pay 800 rubles to a conscript who lost a kidney after being shot by a fellow soldier.

Today, February 5, Moscow City Court increased Compensation for moral damages to a former conscript will be doubled, up to 800 thousand rubles.

The young man lost a kidney in the fall of 2022 while serving in Belgorod region, after an accidental shot by a fellow soldier: he inadvertently pulled the trigger of his machine gun. 

Due to multiple injuries, the kidney had to be removed.  

Military investigators established that one of the circumstances that contributed to the commission of the crime was the inaction of commanders, who failed to conduct the training properly. 

June 10, 2024, Presnensky District Court of Moscow obliged The Russian Ministry of Defense ordered the young man to pay 400 rubles, despite a claim for 1 million rubles.

The Ministry of Defense rarely pays compensation to conscripts and others who suffered as a result of the agency's actions or inactions. The amounts recovered are typically disproportionate to the actual damages. 

So, residents Yeisk, those who lost their property As a result of the military plane crash on October 17, 2022, they received between 236 and 935 rubles in compensation for the value of destroyed property—furniture, household appliances, and cars. Moral damages court appreciated in the amount of 20 thousand to 100 thousand rubles per person.

And the mother of the paratrooper who died in the collapse of the barracks in Omsk, the Russian Ministry of Defense by court order paid 500 thousand rubles - nine years after the incident.