The Russian president sat up close and personal amongst the women, telling them he shared the pain of those who have lost sons and would do everything he could to provide families with help and support.
At an event in Moscow on Tuesday entitled"Heart of Soldier's Mother", a succession of speakers told an audience of mostly young cadets and officers in training how sacred the mother is to the motherland.
"If you live in a house and your neighbour's flat is a mess - it has cockroaches, drunk guests come over and you have kids - you can't live calmly," she says. The Kremlin won't promise that and it remains to be seen whether today's event serves to improve conditions for Russian servicemen at the front or whether it is an empty PR gesture.
Instead, they have been followed constantly by unknown people who slunk off, hoods up, when the women challenged them.
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