Injured servicemen will be employed as military training teachers in schools of Russia’s Buryatia

In Russia’s Buryatia, servicemen who were injured in Ukraine will be employed as teachers in local schools, the region’s governor Alexey Tsidenov promised today.

“We’ve made a decision: when the lads return home [from service], we will be introducing separate, additional positions for them in schools. They will be teaching beginner’s military training, which is of relevance today and will soon be taught in all schools [of Russia],” he said.

The servicemen without pedagogical education will first be trained for free. “They will receive knowledge, skills, an appropriate permission for work with kids in schools, and, taking into account their combat experience, be working in schools,” Tsidenov noted.

According to him, servicemen with severe injuries — “without an arm or a leg” — will be able to work in draft offices and train soldiers in military units.

On 3 March, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that families of servicemen killed in Ukraine would be paid 7.4 mln rubles (€118,400) each. The injured soldiers were promised 3 mln ruble (€48,000) pay-outs.