Why can't Russian “defenders” of the Kursk region be veterans?

An amendment to the Veterans Act presently being prepared by the Russian Ministry of Defence exposes a lie in Kremlin's approach to aggression against Ukraine. It turns out that treating average and textbook aggression against a abroad state: not as a war, but as a alleged military peculiar operation (SWO) entails unexpected legal implications. What corresponds to the Kremlian communicative and propaganda abruptly hit average soldiers who began to have problem getting a veteran's status. In short, there is no war – there are no veterans.