The Ukrainian army on Wednesday invited the mothers of captured Russian soldiers to go look for them in Ukraine, in the seventh day of the invasion launched by Moscow during which it claims to have taken dozens of prisoners.
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Ukraine claims to have captured dozens of Russian troops and there are images posted on mobile phones showing bewildered young men in uniform, without their weapons.
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It was decided to hand over the captured Russian soldiers to their mothers if they come looking for them in Ukraine, in Kiev.
Kiev seeks to sensitize Russian public opinion about the invasion by opening a telephone line for parents to call to inquire about the fate of their children at the front and find out if they are dead or captured.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense declared in a statement the decision to give prisoners of war to their mothers and enabled telephone lines and emails in which it receives information about captured Russians, in addition to clarifying that lMothers will be received in the capital if they want to pick up their children.
“You will be received and taken where your children will be returned to you,” the ministry said. “Unlike Putin’s fascists, we Ukrainians are not waging war against mothers and their captured children“, he indicated.
war crimes
Ukraine has recorded 350 civilian deaths – including 14 children – since the beginning of the conflict, which led Kiev to request a hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to denounce war crimes.
In the same line the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is guilty of “war crimes.” and the day before, during the State of the Union address, US President Joe Biden branded him a “dictator.”
According to the UN, some 874,000 refugees have fled Ukraine since the start of the invasion, a number that is rising rapidly. “We left everything behind when they came and ruined our lives,” Svitlana Mostepanenko, who sought asylum in the Czech Republic, said in Prague.
The Russians are even bombing “houses where there are children, small children, there are children dying right now,” he lamented. Satellite images show that Russian forces continue to concentrate artillery and armor in the direction of Kiev, raising fears of an assault on the capital. “The enemy is bringing his forces closer to the capital,” Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
“Kiev resists and will resist. We are going to fight,” promised the charismatic former boxer. In the midst of psychological warfare on both sides, the Ukrainian army announced that it will hand over Russian soldiers captured at the front to their mothers.
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*With information from EFE and AFP
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