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Women trouble: soldiers’ wives and mothers are turning on Putin

Soldiers’ wives and mothers are turning on Putin

3 December 2022

9:00 AM

3 December 2022

9:00 AM

The women of Voronezh are very busy these days. Across the Russian city, aunties are busy sewing boots and winter clothing. Relatives are busy crowdfunding for night goggles and drones. Wives are busy demonstrating outside military bases. Mothers are busy making preparations to travel 150 miles southwest where they will cross the border into Ukraine to find and bring home the broken bodies of their abandoned sons.

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