Russia’s hasty deployment of conscripts to the front lines of the war in Ukraine has provoked public rebukes from the women of their families despite Kremlin claims that only well-trained reservists are in the fight.
“The guys were being shot at from all sides, they were trapped, and they were killed,” a woman of Vologda, a city north of Moscow, said in a video translated by the Insider, an independent “Russia-focused” media outlet. “The time has come to act, not to think and wait for everyone to be chopped up in this bloody meat grinder! Please bring our husbands and our sons back from this hell!”
— Dmitri November 9, 2022 Still, Putin and other Russian officials have made apparent efforts to convince Russian citizens that they are working to minimize casualties. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has participated in multiple public government briefings — one with Putin, another with a subordinate — in which Russian authorities emphasized that “it is necessary to send only well-trained and well-equipped fighters” to Ukraine, as he put it to Putin last month.
The reality of the Russian mobilization has been more reckless, according to families who have reported that their relatives were killed within as few as 10 days of being called up for the draft. “The guys came under the strongest and deadliest artillery fire from the AFU, were subjected to mortar shelling and drone attacks,” they said. “The guys were being shot at from all sides, they were trapped, and they were killed. Both the enemy and our artillery were shooting at our guys.”
There continues to be intense fighting in the other regions of eastern Ukraine that Putin has tried to claim, as Ukrainian officials acknowledge.
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