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The wife of Ivan Khabin, who was injured during the SVO of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine, appropriated compensation for the injury in the amount of 3 million rubles and disappeared. The conscript’s wife took their minor son with her, reports The Eastern Herald.
Yekaterinburg law enforcement officials refused to initiate criminal proceedings against Ivan. According to the military, no response has been received from the district attorney’s office, which it considers negligence and inaction by the authorities.
Ivan Khabin was called to the front on September 27, 2022. Before the SVO, the man worked as an electrician in a depot. After almost two months of service, he came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, where he was injured and ended up in hospital. The soldier said he really wanted to go home with his wife and son.
Ivan sent his battles to his wife, leaving his phone with the banking app at home. The mobilized person discovered that his wife was transferring funds to her personal card already at home. Spouses rarely called each other, in the service it often did not work out. Ivan admits that he sometimes felt something was wrong.
“When I heard what she had done, I asked for half the salary to be transferred to my account and for the full social allowance to be returned to me, but she refused. And on March 20, she completely disappeared in an unknown direction with her child. And I don’t know where they are, what happened to them,” said the soldier.
Previously mobilized from the autonomous Khanty-Mansi Okrug, he told how much children’s letters and drawings are valued at the front. The military particularly hold the children’s wishes and their warm words to heart.
