Vladimir Putin has met with a carefully selected group of mothers whose sons have been sent to fight and die in Ukraine.
The Russian president appeared awkward and physically uncomfortable in footage released from the encounter, breathing heavily and stopping to clear his throat.
He continued: ‘We understand that nothing can replace the loss of a son – especially for a mother. We share this pain.’ Among them are some of the 300,000 reservists called up during a partial mobilisation which saw men press ganged into fighting, sometimes forcibly taken to barracks by police. The Union of the Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia was founded as a human rights organisation in the late 1980s and became an influential voice during the first war in Chechnya.
There have been widespread reports of Russian soldiers being sent into battle without adequate equipment or training.The British Ministry of Defence released a report today which said its intelligence suggests men with ‘serious’ health problems are being called up amid desperation for numbers. It continued: ‘In Donetsk Oblast, reservists have been killed in large numbers in frontal assaults into well-established Ukrainian defensive zones around the town of Bakhmut.
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