Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the mothers of soldiers who died fighting in Ukraine in what activists say was a staged meeting designed to calm public anger about the deaths of mobilized troops.
after being sent with insufficient training and poor equipment. Troops have also complained on social media about substandard living conditions.that Putin's meeting with bereaved mothers would likely be a carefully orchestrated publicity stunt, with participants preselected to avoid friction.
Olga Tsukanova, a leader of the Council of Mothers and Wives, a grassroots organization of relatives of Russian soldiers, said that Putin had not invited any of its members. "Are you a man or what? Do you have the courage to look us in the eye, not with hand-picked women and mothers in your pocket, but with real women who have traveled from various cities here to meet with you?" she said in the video, per
"It is clear that life is more complicated and diverse than what is shown on TV screens or even on the internet – you can't trust anything there at all, there are a lot of all sorts of fakes, deception, lies," Putin told the group of women, according to The Guardian.
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