The Kremlin has concealed the true death count, and many Russian servicemen have died in the struggle against Ukraine.
Yevgeny Chubarin was only 24 years old when he was killed. He wanted to join the Russian army to fight against Ukraine, and by May 15, he was holding an AK-47. He was dead by the next day. He left his mother in mourning.
Vladimir Krot was a 59-year-old Soviet pilot, who had already retired from war, but he begged to fight in Ukraine. He was repeatedly told he couldn’t go, but when casualties increased, he was told “yes.” He died a few days later, when his SU-25 jet crashed during a training flight in Southern Russia. His wife and 8-year-old daughter were left without a husband and father.
In Russia, stories like these are hidden by triumphant propaganda. These stories and similar tales are banned, and the war is shown as a struggle to survive against American and Ukrainian “Nazis,” as well as against NATO. The Kremlin is working hard to suppress mourning families and peace activists who would otherwise join together and gain support.
Dmitry Shkrebets is a Russian citizen. Internal security agents paid him a visit after he accused the authorities of lying about the true death count on the Black Sea flagship Moskva, where his son Yegor was a conscript on board, and was killed by Ukrainian missiles. The agents accused Shkrebets senior of making bomb threats and they took his laptop. He wrote about it on VKontakte, which is the Russian version of Facebook.
Bobo Lo is part of the Lowy Institute, a think tank in Australia. He says that President Vladimir Putin “has been able to defend this,” by tightly controlling any information that goes to the Russian people.
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Yevgeny Chubarin was only 24 years old when he was killed. He wanted to join the Russian army to fight against Ukraine, and by May 15, he was holding an AK-47. He was dead by the next day. He left his mother in mourning.
Vladimir Krot was a 59-year-old Soviet pilot, who had already retired from war, but he begged to fight in Ukraine. He was repeatedly told he couldn’t go, but when casualties increased, he was told “yes.” He died a few days later, when his SU-25 jet crashed during a training flight in Southern Russia. His wife and 8-year-old daughter were left without a husband and father.
In Russia, stories like these are hidden by triumphant propaganda. These stories and similar tales are banned, and the war is shown as a struggle to survive against American and Ukrainian “Nazis,” as well as against NATO. The Kremlin is working hard to suppress mourning families and peace activists who would otherwise join together and gain support.
Dmitry Shkrebets is a Russian citizen. Internal security agents paid him a visit after he accused the authorities of lying about the true death count on the Black Sea flagship Moskva, where his son Yegor was a conscript on board, and was killed by Ukrainian missiles. The agents accused Shkrebets senior of making bomb threats and they took his laptop. He wrote about it on VKontakte, which is the Russian version of Facebook.
Bobo Lo is part of the Lowy Institute, a think tank in Australia. He says that President Vladimir Putin “has been able to defend this,” by tightly controlling any information that goes to the Russian people.
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