The region also has support measures for the participants of the special operation and their familiesTASS, September 16.
The division named after Hero of the Soviet Union Pyotr Shironin will be formed in the Kirov region to participate in a special military operation, the press service of the head of the region reported on Friday.
Earlier, the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov said that "the head of each subject of Russia must prove his willingness to help the state." According to him, assistance should be expressed in concrete actions that will help the fighters.
"A battalion of Vyatka has already been formed in the Kirov region, our guys are successfully performing tasks in the special operation zone. The battalion's volunteers receive a lump sum payment from the regional government. Now the formation of the division named after Hero of the Soviet Union Pyotr Nikolaevich Shironin, our countryman, a native of the city of Kirsa, who in March 1943, together with his platoon, withstood the onslaught of 35 enemy tanks and armored vehicles, defending a railway crossing near the village of Taranovka, Kharkiv region, has also begun in the region. Recruitment to the Shironin division is already underway," the press service of the acting head of the region Alexander Sokolov quotes.
According to him, Kirov soldiers of the Rosgvardiya, OMON and SOBRA participate in the tasks of the special operation, the Kirov anti-aircraft missile brigade serves to protect the sky in the zone of a special military operation.
"Kirov residents - public organizations, for example, the Kirov Regional Cossack Society, the Young Guard, activists, deputies, businessmen, volunteers - help adequately equip our soldiers and collect humanitarian aid for the residents of Donbass. Humanitarian supplies with food, basic necessities, children's goods are regularly sent from the Kirov region to the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics, another 20-ton truck left Kirov on August 25. With the support of the Kirov public organization "Union of Paratroopers", the Paratroopers Fund was created, which provides financial support to the paratroopers participating in the SVO. The Kirov region helps the armed forces in providing soldiers with uniforms and equipment," Sokolov said.
In addition, support measures are in place in the Kirov region for the participants of the special operation and their families. These are monthly cash payments for the children of servicemen participating in a special operation, and compensation for the cost of their education at universities. "These families need support now. Fathers and husbands defend the security of our Motherland, fight against Nazism. Therefore, we, of course, must help both our armed forces and the families of our soldiers," the press service quotes Sokolov as saying.