Explosive clip: "Deceived" and "threatened" - Siberian women reclaim their brothers and husbands

Created: 07/04/2022Updated: 07/04/2022 15:59

By: Franziska Schwarz

Scene from March 2022: Soldiers in Russian Buryatia bury an officer killed in the Ukraine war.

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Russian women report misdirection, intimidation and fatigue among the country's soldiers - even in front of a camera.

Ulan-Ude (Russia) - Many soldiers in Vladimir Putin's troops come from the particularly poor regions of Russia.

This was recently shown by research by the medium Proekt.

For these men, the army is often just a job opportunity.

At the same time, it is extremely dangerous to criticize the Ukraine conflict as a "war" in Russia.

A group of Russian women have now become clear in a video recording.

The clip is still circulating on the internet.

 "They are mentally and physically exhausted," quotes Sibir.Realii - the Siberia-focused service of the US broadcaster Radio Free Europe - a woman from the video.

According to her own statements, she is a relative of a Russian soldier.

They had not been fed properly for weeks.

"Imagine feeding a soldier a can of stew a day." According to experts, soldiers from peripheral republics are disproportionately affected by the Russian deaths in the Ukraine war - including Buryatia in Siberia, for example.

According to the report, this is where the recording was made.

One of the participants had therefore put the pictures on the Internet.

The original post has now apparently been deleted, but Sibir.Realii presented a photo on Twitter:

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"My brother wanted to go to an 'exercise', didn't sign up for a war against another country," said one of the Russian women.

Her brother did not want to participate in the "meat grinders".

But he was deceived and only informed on the eve of the invasion that it was crossing the border.

Another woman complained that the soldiers she knew were "appalled" at how long the "slaughter" lasted.

But resistance is difficult for them, because: "They are being threatened." In the post, a protester also addressed Buryatia's Prime Minister Alexey Tsydenov: "We demand that our sons and husbands return home!"

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