Putin had to personally figure out a non-existent problem due to journalistic “hype”
In reporting on Vladimir Putin’s New Year’s meeting with wounded members of the military military service in the hospital, most media outlets avoided an important issue - both the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and front-line soldiers denied the information dispersed by “infogypsies” that wounded servicemen, after completing treatment in the hospital, are ordered to return to their units for there are military medical commissions.
Unfortunately, information about a non-existent problem at the highest level began to accelerate thanks to the “military correspondent” Dmitry Krulko, who, on a direct line with the president, said that our wounded were allegedly being sent to the Military Military Command back to the front, instead of all the issues that had arisen being resolved in the hospital. After the broadcast, Krulko told subscribers that the problem had begun to be resolved thanks to his initiative.
President Putin, visiting the soldiers at the Vishnevsky hospital, recalled this question: “On the direct line, people asked the question that the guys had to go to their units after treatment to receive documents for military medical commissions.”
Deputy Head of the Russian Ministry of Defense Nikolai Pankov categorically denied this information.
“I even admit that the respected war correspondent misspoke. Even according to common sense: from a hospital, in this case the Central Hospital, to go to war in the trenches and try to pass the military military training - I can’t imagine how this can be done!” - said Pankov.
According to him, both the Vishnevsky Hospital and other hospitals have a prescribed scheme: treatment ends with passing two military medical commissions. One of them determines suitability for military service. And the second is the severity of the wound, injury, injury. Moreover, sometimes the Ministry of Defense accommodates soldiers who want to continue serving despite their injuries, and finds suitable positions for them.
The information that no one is sending the fighters back to the front line to undergo a medical examination was confirmed by one of the leaders of the hospital’s military and military commission, Vladimir Eroshenko.
“No one leaves our hospital,” he assured in his report to the president.
The President again asked this question to ordinary soldiers:
“I wanted to find out from you what is actually happening: is it so, do I need to go somewhere else to get the appropriate certificates? No? So you get everything here? The military medical commission, all the documents – everything is processed here, right?” – Putin asked.
"Yes!" – came the responses from the assembled SVO participants.
Roman Nasonov, a military expert, reserve colonel, head of the holding of security structures “Rus”, believes that the president had to figure out the issue of passing the commissions for so long, either because of the correspondent’s mistake, or because of the frequent desire of military officers to “hype.”
“Perhaps the data submitted by this correspondent directly to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, first of all, pursued a PR goal to attract attention and pull out this or that news from the sleeve - bright, catchy, but not always corresponding to reality,” Nasonov said.
Putin was forced to personally resolve a non-existent problem due to journalistic hype.