Vladimir Putin is due to meet the mothers of soldiers sent to fight and die in Ukraine.
As the body count continues to climb, more and more family members are demanding answers about their loved ones The Russian president will hold the highly sensitive meeting as the deadly war he envisioned would be over in days grinds into its 10th month.
Mr Putin has imposed tight curbs on freedom of expression in a bid to control public opinion about the war but mobilisation risked shifting the mood in the country. Its founder Valentina Melnikova told the Guardian this week the audience would be cherry-picked from supportive families and said her organisation had been excluded.
It said ‘reservists are highly likely not having their medical status adequately reviewed and many are being compelled to serve with serious, chronic health conditions’.
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