🔴As the sole group with the moral authority to challenge Vladimir Putin, it is their voices that are shaking the Motherland.
Here’s how Russian mothers could change the course of the war 🧵👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/0…
Here’s how Russian mothers could change the course of the war 🧵👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/0…
Hopes are growing that the mobilisation of Russian mothers unwilling to watch their sons dispatched to their deaths could alter the course of this terrible war
🇷🇺It is no coincidence that yesterday, on International Women’s Day, Putin directly addressed the mothers of soldiers
On Monday, angry Russian mothers accused him of deploying their sons as “cannon fodder” in his invasion of Ukraine
The Soldiers’ Mothers Committee, Russia’s best-known advocacy group for servicemen’s rights, was first set up in 1989.
In the past week, the committee spoke openly of the “sea of tears” which has resulted from the invasion of Ukraine
In the past week, the committee spoke openly of the “sea of tears” which has resulted from the invasion of Ukraine
🗣️“The soldiers’ mothers are one of the few bastions of civil society in Russia, and they tend to atrophy and then regalvanise every time there’s a war,” says Prof Mark Galeotti, an expert in Russian security affairs at University College London
"They don’t have political power, but they have a lot of moral authority"
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