Legal issue: the  сonstitutionality of the rule which deprives members of military personnel  of monthly monetary compensation for the injury sustained as a result of military service, if they receive on the same ground other payments, such as an increased pension for long service. 

Ratio decidendi: current legislation sticks to the general principle according to which it is inadmissible to repeatedly provide essentially similar social benefits arising from different grounds. Such principle does not per se contradict the Constitution. However, the  purposes of monthly compensation and the increased pension are essentially different (the compensation of financial losses  sustained  because of impossibility of further service, in the first instance, and the enhancement of pension provision, in the second instance); therefore, the denial of compensation merely for the reason of  there being granted a higher pension does not conform to the Constitution.