reuter video
Soldier’s wife demands return of husband at Putin’s headquarters
STORY: The wife of a Russian soldier made an emotional appeal to President Vladimir Putin’s return from Ukraine at his campaign headquarters on Saturday, a defiance in a country where open criticism of the war is banned. It was a kind of attitude. The Pentagon is out of money, now we need to squeeze everything out of our guys and take the last life out of them? Will they come back as a stump? They give me a stump? What will I get in return? “A legless, armless, sick man? Don’t you know what’s going on there?” This heated exchange ended with Maria Andreeva asking President Putin It happened after a woman at an election base in Ukraine told her that Russian soldiers in Ukraine were protecting her homeland. We should pray for them. It showed the depth of anger and despair among some soldiers’ families as the war rages on with no end in sight after almost two years. “I think we need to come en masse and write similar appeals, or directives, to force by the weight of numbers. Previously, we would go to MPs or write letters. “I don’t know, when?” said Andreeva, who is working with The Way Home, which is campaigning for her husband’s return from Ukraine. She belongs to an organization called Soldiers’ Wives. Last month, President Putin chose a rally with military personnel to announce his plans to run for a new six-year term in March elections, where his supporters and opponents alike rallied around Putin. Victory is seen as a foregone conclusion. President Putin said that Russia is in a strong situation. Positioned across Ukraine’s front lines, it will push to achieve the goals of what he calls “special military operations.”