Valentina Melnikova is a brave woman and long-term executive secretary of the Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia - the heroine of the new issue of the special format «Skazi Gordeevoy».
Perhaps it was the most emotionally difficult interview for me. It's about soldiers and their mothers. And losses, which, unfortunately, are inevitable in combat.
English subtitles made by Nastya McEvoy / nastya.shilonosova
Content:
0:00 "The feeling that I have returned to 1995"
1:10 "We have been saying since December: Guys, the troops will go to Ukraine"
3:02 "Go to the military units and return your relatives"
6:27 "A miracle is expected of us" - what does the committee of soldiers' mothers do
9:53 Are the lists of the dead and prisoners of war correct?
12:29 "The Russian side does not say where it holds the captured Ukrainians"
13:43 "If there is no official appeal from a person to us, we can't do anything at all"
15:52 "Everything is very weak with our population"
18:21 "It's cheaper to write a soldier missing"
21:00 Scammers ask for ransom for captured Russian soldiers
22:33 "There are wooden crosses in the grass: no names, no lists - nothing" - the cemetery of the First World War in Germany
24:54 "You had a fight, declare a truce and exchange the bodies of the dead"
28:53 How much will the state pay to the families of the military killed in Ukraine?
33:09 "I haven't taken a cent since 2013" - about the law on foreign agents
35:04 "Mom doesn't know the military unit of her son, who has been serving under contract for many years." How is it?
38:57 "It is impossible to demand anything from these people"
42:17 "No one observes the law with respect to military personnel in our country"
45:38 Now we can only rely on the military prosecutor. Why?
48:36 "What is the order of the FSB? Please send me to WhatsApp"
50:47 "I am disappointed in the mental abilities of the negotiators with Ukraine from the Russian side"
53:09 "We can never prevent anything"
55:26 "I do not know who to ask what the Russian military is doing with the Ukrainian"
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