Putin Calls Support for Veterans a Moral Duty, Urges Stronger Social Guarantees

Overview

• Putin’s message, published on the Kremlin website, frames assistance to service members as an unconditional ethical obligation for the state and society.
• The forum is taking place at Moscow’s National Center “Russia,” bringing together participants and veterans of the special military operation, their families, officials, NGOs, experts, and media.
• He called for steady expansion of social protections for front-line personnel and their families, with solutions tailored to individual circumstances.
• The president praised the Defenders of the Fatherland Fund for work on medical care, rehabilitation, legal support, retraining, and employment for veterans.
• Organizers said about 1,000 decorated participants of the operation would attend, alongside representatives of the presidential administration, government, parliament, ministries, religious leaders, war correspondents, experts, and the fund’s social coordinators.