From MT:
“Kremlin Receives Almost
42,000 Complaints on Missing Ukraine Soldiers – Investigation”
The Kremlin received nearly
42,000 complaints in April from the relatives of soldiers missing in Ukraine,
investigative outlet iStories reported Thursday. Official data revealed that
President Vladimir Putin’s administration received 41,666 requests related to
missing or captured soldiers. The Russian government has not released any
official figures on its Ukraine death toll since March 25, when it said that
1,351 men had died during the conflict.
An independent investigation by
iStories has since placed the toll at over 3,000, based on publicly available
data from local authorities and social media. “The types of people who write to
the president are usually loyal, but apolitical,” Abbas Gallyamov, political
consultant and former Putin speechwriter, told iStories. “These are ordinary people… with a traditional
mentality and belief in a kindly patriarchal tsar.” Gallyamov suggested the figure only accounted
for some of the family members currently searching for missing or captured
soldiers. “Most of them don’t write to anyone, they don’t really believe that
the authorities will do anything good for them,” he says.
Kremlin data did not indicate how
many of the complaints had been processed, or whether any definitive answers
had been provided to those affected. Ukraine said it held approximately 600
Russian prisoners of war as of early April. According to Kyiv, more than 400
soldiers have so far been exchanged with Moscow in 14 prisoner exchanges.
Moscow has not released its own figures. One prominent soldiers’ rights
organization, the Union of the Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia, said
it has received “several hundred” applications asking for information on
missing servicemen.
^ The Russians writing to Putin
are the same simple people (in every sense of the word) that also wrote to the
Czar or to Stalin in the past - or the
Germans who wrote to Hitler.
They cannot believe their
"Great Leader" would allow these crimes to be committed and are
informing him of what is going on - instead of thinking that their Leader is
the reason these crimes are happening. ^
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