According to government decrees and presidential decrees, workers traveling to the annexed territories must receive daily both daily allowances (up to 8,480 rubles) and compensation for rental housing (up to 7,210 rubles): the total amount, therefore, may exceed 15,000 rubles.

The authorities also guarantee compensation in case of injury and death (up to 5 million rubles). In addition, the salary itself before the New Year ranged from 7 to 10 thousand rubles a day. In January, payments fell to 3 thousand.

However, in reality, as the workers who were in the annexed territories told Sota, all payments, except for wages, are not made.

According to government requirements, before sending on a business trip, organizations that hire workers send their lists and information about relatives (in case of death or injury) to their personnel services, and the register of such organizations is maintained by the Ministry of Construction. The department has formed the Department for the Implementation of a Special Infrastructure Project (this is the name for the construction of defensive structures in the annexed territories).

However, in practice, there is no talk of real accounting of employees. Organizations that receive funds are various state unitary enterprises like Mosvodokanal, Mosvodostok, State Budgetary Institution Zhilischnik, and others, which in turn hire contractors, and they hire intermediaries. It is the latter that conclude contracts with employees. In each such case, there is no talk of daily allowances, compensation for housing and payments for injuries or death, since no lists are formed and the Ministry of Construction is not controlled.

At the same time, the Ministry is aware of the situation and in response to requests (available to the editors) notes that “the Ministry of Construction of Russia maintains a register only of bodies and organizations whose employees are directly involved in the performance of work ...” In this case, officials obviously understand under "direct participation" it is organizations of the "first level".

One of the workers described the working conditions as follows: “I left Moscow as part of a group of 29 people. Employment contracts were handed out to us, which is rare. But, apart from the amount of 7,000 rubles, no special conditions were indicated.

When we arrived, we were settled in the classrooms of the school, in total, probably, there were about a hundred people. And two toilet bowls, one of which immediately failed due to overload. This is to the issue of compensation for rental housing up to 7210 rubles. On the territory of the LPR, I visited at least 3 schools where my colleagues settled.

On the fourth day of work, we were covered tightly, there were direct flights into the trenches. They drove a dump truck and urgently evacuated to Pervomaisk, from there to Lugansk, where again 300 people were stuffed into the school gym.

The next day, our leader arrived, promised to work until the New Year in Moscow, then back. Upon arrival, through the "Gosuslugi" I looked at the records in the electronic labor and account of the PFR: I did not find anything. No one provided work in Moscow, although the contract was concluded until December 31, 2022. Transfers came from individuals.

Let us add that up to half of the workers in the annexed territories are migrants hired in Russia from both the countries of Central Asia and Africa. In the event of their death, relatives often do not have a chance to find out about it, since workers are not only strictly forbidden to use any other than push-button phones, but also require the use of only local SIM cards.

Finally, many workers are lured to the annexed territories by deceit, initially reporting that they are sending for repairs, for example, hospitals, and on the spot demanding to dig trenches as part of a “special infrastructure project”.