Meeting of the Commission for Veteran Affairs

Members of the commission discussed the provision of medical care, medications and spa treatment to veterans of the Great Patriotic War and combat veterans, as well as support in veteran employment.

"We have the approved legislation on state social protection guarantees for veterans, primarily the right to priority access to medical care, rehabilitation, subsidised medications, medical check-ups (including consultations with narrow specialists and medical psychologists), and support of professional self-realisation The main thing now is to ensure the implementation of these decisions at the local level," Tatyana Golikova Golikova TatyanaDeputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation stated.

In 2025, routine medical examinations have been conducted for about 10,000 disabled veterans and participants of the Great Patriotic War, over 120,000 widows and widowers of disabled veterans and participants of the Great Patriotic War, residents of besieged Leningrad, Sevastopol and Stalingrad, and former underage inmates of concentration camps and ghettoes, as well as for over 105,000 veterans of the special military operation. Over 44 percent of them were recommended to undergo follow-up examination.

Spa treatment was provided to nearly 800 participants of the Great Patriotic War and nearly 22,500 veterans of the special military operation in 2025.

Since January 1, 2026, participants in the special military operation who need assistance during medical care have a right to spa treatment together with an accompanying person. The Social Fund will finance these persons' meals and stay in rehabilitation centres and their travel to and from the place of treatment.

In 2025, over 103,000 disabled veterans and participants of the Great Patriotic War were issued medicines financed by the federal budget, and medicines for over 22,000 disabled veterans and participants of the Great Patriotic War were financed by regional budgets.

Following the discussion, the participants approved a list of recommendations for the Healthcare Ministry and the regions.

Apart from issues of medical care and spa treatment, they also discussed assistance to combat veterans' employment.

Based on the results of 2025, all the 89 regions of Russia have created a database of participants in the special military operation who have completed military service. Most of them have established communication with employment centres that provide personal consultations, career guidance at rehabilitation centres, and organise job fairs together with employers.

Support for combat veterans within the framework of the Personnel national project includes free retraining in 186 professions plus training in 27 additional professions (from fitter to big data specialist) for participants in the special military operation. The regions have created a database of 28,000 companies and organisations that offer jobs to veterans, and 36 regions have reserved about 37,500 jobs for them.

Last year, 8,303 job fairs were held in which over 35,000 employers and about 26,000 participants in the special military operation took part.

The employment leaders are the Lugansk People's Republic (86.5 percent), Moscow (80 percent), and the Tomsk Region (76.5 percent).

The participants also discussed best practices in the employment of combat veterans, which are being promoted throughout the country.