Putin comforts families of war veterans
The protracted war in Ukraine has led to the depletion of Russian military weapons. In Russia, as the discontent of family members worried about the safety of war veterans grew, President Vladimir Putin personally began to calm them down.
The UK Ministry of Defense said in a Defense Intelligence Agency (DI) report released on Twitter on the 26th, “From the photos of the wreckage of a Russian cruise missile recently shot down in Ukraine, it appears clearly it was an AS-15 KENT missile with a nuclear warhead in the 1980s.” etc. have been reported. Nuclear warheads are said to have been removed from nuclear missiles developed in the 1980s and other warheads were installed and used. “Whatever the intent, these ‘temporary’ missiles are depleting Russia’s long-range missile inventory,” he said. Western military experts also present analysis that Russia’s missile stock is running low, such as the repeated use of S-300 surface-to-air missiles produced in the former Soviet Union.
Discontent among the families of Russian veterans is also growing. Organizations of war veterans’ families, including the ‘Wives and Mothers Committee’, openly criticized President Putin for not providing appropriate information about the reservists who had been mobilized.
The Kremlin Palace released photos and comments of President Putin chatting with 17 mothers of war veterans at the presidential residence outside Moscow on the 25th ahead of Mother’s Day on the 27th to calm worsening public opinion. However, the British BBC reported that the Kremlin Palace had carefully selected the attendees and that some mothers had been pro-Putin campaigners. The Women and Mothers Committee also raised doubts about directing, saying attendees were told to ask “only the right questions.” President Putin even cautiously told the attendees that the death toll was relatively low, saying, “(In Russia, every year) about 30,000 people die in traffic accidents.”
Cairo = Correspondent Seonghwi Kang yolo@donga.com
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