Families of drafted Russian soldiers accuse Putin of snubbing them

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President derided for ‘staging’ meeting with handpicked mothers and wives in attempt to quell anger over call-up

Vladimir Putin speaks to a soldier on a visit to a military training centre for mobilised reservists in October.At the event, they propped up large photographs of Russian officials who had been invited to take part but had ignored the meeting, including the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, and chief of the general staff, Valery Gerasimov.

Putin’s meeting with the families of soldiers, which was confirmed by the Kremlin this week, is seen as an effort to protect the image of the Russian president who at times has been accused of being out of touch and ridiculed as living “in a bunker”.,” said Denis Volkov, the director of the Levada Center, an independent polling agency in Moscow.

“I think that they couldn’t ignore that,” he added. Putin’s meeting with the mothers would serve to show “that Putin knows about it, that he’s involved”. She recalled his meeting in 2000 with the relatives of dead sailors on the Kursk nuclear submarine, which ended with Putin being heckled in public.

 

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