Russian military defenses consist of conscripts despite Putin's insistence that the Kremlin military is only professional fighters.
And on Monday, a group of concerned mothers accused Putin and his military of sending their sons to war"as cannon fodder," according to a report from The Telegraph.
"We were all deceived, all deceived," one woman can be heard shouting at Sergey Tsivilev, governor of the Kuzbass region in Siberia, in a video translated by the Telegraph."They were sent there as cannon fodder. They are young. They were unprepared.", instigating war as Ukrainians scrambled to escape to safety in neighboring countries. An estimated 2,155,271 people have fled Ukraine since then.
On Tuesday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said 474 civilians had been confirmed killed in Ukraine since the start of the invasion, while 861 had been confirmed injured. The office estimated that figures were actually higher.
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