Russian mum's fight to save sons from Putin's war

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When Marina's two sons were conscripted last winter to the Russian army she welcomed the idea of her children doing a year's military service.

"I told them that they had to serve," Marina tells me, "it was their duty to the motherland."

But a few weeks later she began to worry. Her sons had been deployed to an area close to the border with Ukraine.

On 24 February President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to invade Ukraine. That day Marina (not her real name) lost contact with her sons.

"Time stopped for me. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep," she told me. "I exchanged messages with the mothers of other conscripts from the same unit. It turned out that many of them had lost contact with their children, too."

The Kremlin promised that Russian conscripts would not be sent to Ukraine.
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Russian mum's fight to save sons from Putin's war

This same story is in a BBC broadcast video also:

 

[wing2000]

....and sadly, many Russian parents will never know how their sons perished in the "special military operation."

 

[Nithavela]

From the article:

"I'd like to believe that our president, the commander-in-chief, just isn't aware of the mess and chaos in the army. I want to tell him that not everything here is like they say it is on television."

She is just as deluded as everyone else in Russia. Even after this ordeal.

"If only Putin knew".

LOL