Russian President Vladimir Putin said this Friday, during a meeting with the mothers of soldiers deployed in Ukraine, “share the pain” of those who lost their children, and called on them not to believe the “lies” about the military operation .
A Mother’s Day Sunday marked by “worry”
“I want you to know that I, personally, all the country’s leaders, share this pain. We know that nothing can replace the loss of a child”, declared Vladimir Putin, the serious mine.
He added that Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on Sunday in Russia, would be marked this year by “a feeling of anxiety and concern” among the affected women, whose “thoughts will be with their children.”
She was speaking in front of women presented by the Kremlin as mothers of soldiers fighting in Ukraine, gathered around a table at Vladimir Putin’s residence in Novo-Ogarevo, near Moscow. Most of them showed a closed face.
An unprecedented meeting since the beginning of the conflict
Vladimir Putin and the Russian authorities rarely refer to the losses suffered by Moscow in the Ukraine.
This meeting with mothers of soldiers, unprecedented since the start of the offensive, also comes after weeks of criticism posted on social networks by relatives of men mobilized in early autumn to fight in Ukraine.
Many wives and mothers of summoned men have accused the authorities of not having sufficiently trained or equipped their relatives before sending them to the front.
Putin denounces “false information”
“Life is more complicated than what you see on TV or on the Internet, where you cannot trust anything. There is a lot of false information, deceit, lies,” Vladimir Putin told soldiers’ mothers.
“It has always been like this, but taking into account modern technologies, it has become even more noticeable and effective,” he added, denouncing “informational attacks.”
This clarification echoes the laws passed after the start of the offensive in Ukraine that punishes those accused of spreading “false information” about the army or “discrediting” it with harsh prison terms.
Source: BFM TV
