President Putin is facing growing opposition from the mothers of serving soldiers, who say the Russian president has turned their sons into “cannon fodder” for the war in Ukraine.
The activists accuse Putin of snubbing a request to meet them and discuss the poor treatment of conscripts at the front and at training bases in Russia.
“You are the commander-in-chief and you are completely responsible for the destructive reforms in the army and for what is happening in military units,” the Council of Mothers and Wives said in a statement today.
The Kremlin caved in to pressure this week and promised Putin would hold a meeting with soldiers’ mothers in the coming days to coincide with Mother’s Day in Russia, celebrated this Sunday.
But the