"Our children and husbands are fighting for our new territories": Border residents responded to an official who said they should have defended their homes from the Ukrainian Armed Forces themselves.
New videos are emerging from the spontaneous avalanche that took place today held Residents of the Kursk border region are unhappy with the cancellation of monthly payments of 65 thousand rubles.
According to preliminary data, in the spontaneous action accepted Between 150 and 200 people participated. They recorded an appeal to Vladimir Putin and the governor. To Alexander Khinshtein, where they emphasized that the government failed to keep its promise to support internally displaced persons until the end of the counter-terrorism operation.
“We are given certificates for the lost houses, but now Khinshtein has decided to divide the pie, and our 65 [thousand rubles a month] will now go towards the reconstruction of Kursk,” People are outraged in the video. "Plugging all the holes with our money? It's a vicious circle. With one hand, you gave it all away, and with the other, you took it from the people."
Border residents reported that officials are ignoring their complaints on social media, and housing certificates are impossible to obtain due to "legal conflicts." Specifically, commission members are unable to inspect destroyed homes because the Ministry of Defense is barring them from border villages.
“We are constantly told that life is getting better, we read beautiful reports about how everything will be fine, but the main problem does not go away - we have nowhere to return to!” people emphasized. — We're being strangled by debt, forced to pay mortgages on houses we don't actually own, while simultaneously paying our last rent on other people's apartments. Canceling the 65-ruble [monthly payment] will completely destroy us; we'll become homeless and in debt."
As follows from the video, during the meeting, the advisor to the Kursk governor Victoria Penkova saidthat border residents had to defend their homes from the Ukrainian Armed Forces themselves: "I said men! That men must defend their homes. I'll repeat it."
“Our children and our husbands are mostly in the ‘Northeastern Military District’ and are fighting not for our border regions, but for our new territories,” responded This is what the participants of the spontaneous gathering said.
The monthly payment of 65 rubles was introduced in February 2025. Starting in the new year, the Russian government decided to "reallocate" the funds to other needs, in order, according to Khinshtein, "to give a new impetus to the region's economy."
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