Ukrainian forensics examines the body of a Russian soldier east of Kiev. Photo: Sergei Supinsky / AFP
The wives of Russian soldiers who are fighting in Ukraine asked about this in a video it has already been removed from the netsthat their husbands be sent home “to abandon this unjust war”.
More than a dozen women and a child from Buryatia, a poor district in eastern Siberia, said in the video that their husbands had left in January. “Training in Belarus” and they never returned, according to the Center for Defense Strategies (CDS), a Ukrainian think tank.
one of the women called the war “unjust” in the comments on social networks. He said local authorities “should take the blame for the deaths of more men.”
Capture of the video of women demonstrating in Russia, which was then filmed. Photo: video capture
Wives of the 5th Tatsin Tank Brigade
The women in the video are the wives of the troops of the Russian 5th Tatsin Tank Brigade. This is military unit 46108, which is believed to have suffered at least 30 casualties since the invasion began.
His call highlights growing frustration among families in Russia, they believed their husbands and children they had gone to train. Only later did they learn that they were involved in the war in Ukraine.
Russian tank destroyed in Ukraine. Photo: Sergei Chuzavkov / AFP
In a statement read by one of the women, they called on the local governor, Alexei Tsydenov, to investigate and bring the men home. They said it their husbands were “tired” and many of them “suffered from health problems”.
“The military is morally and physically exhausted. They all have concussion, mild to moderate. The soldiers have been in the field from January to today. Many people have flu-like illnesses, “the statement read a reference to Covid.
On social media, Vera Partilkhaeva, believed to be one of the women in the video, described the situation as “anarchy”, according to Sibir Realii, a Russian-language newspaper affiliated with Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty funded by the United States.
The body of a Russian soldier, abandoned in a trench, in Mala Rogan, Ukraine. Photo: Photo: Fadel Senna / AFP
“Everyone is afraid. The order to keep quiet has been given! That the death of every soldier inside this unjust war be on your conscience! We ask for the return of our children and our husbands to their homeland, ”declared Vera.
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The video statement has been removed along with his profile. Local media reported that the governor had agreed to meet the women over the weekend.
In its latest update, the Ukrainian CDS stated: “The morale and psychological state of the personnel of the invasion forces still low. The wives of the military of Russia’s 5th Separate Tank Brigade posted a video message, demanding the immediate rotation of their husbands at home. They noted that they left their permanent deployment positions in January 2022 to “train in Belarus”.
Local activists in Siberia have accused the Kremlin of use the local population as “cannon fodder” for their war in Ukraine.
the Siberian region sent many men in the first days of the invasion of Ukraine, especially in the attempt to reach Kiev and its suburbs. suffered some of the higher war casualty rates. Many young people join the military as “contract soldiers” because of lack of jobs alternatives in Siberia.
At least this is the opinion of the British Ministry of Defense 25,000 Russian soldiers died fighting in Ukraine.
Paris, correspondent
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Maria Laura Avignolo
Source: Clarin
