Grieving Russian Mother Presented Brick As Memento Of Her Son

Russian cynicism is endless. Stung by recent reports of widows and mothers of Russian soldiers who are given no information about their missing loved ones, this bit of manufactured PR was made for a Russian tv channel, presumably to show how much the military cares about their mobilized soldiers and conscripts. The truth, of course, is that they don't put any value whatsoever on their soldiers, with their main strategy now to send endless "meat waves" of soldiers to almost certain death. (The average life expectancy for the newly mobilized is down to just 4.5 months from the time they arrive in Ukraine. For prisoners and conscripts given almost no training it's even less.) Russian casualties were nearly 1000 per day in November and over that this month.

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