President Vladimir Putin told the mothers of Russian soldiers killed in combat in Ukraine that he sometimes called soldiers at the front, and that their words had made them heroes in his eyes.
Tens of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the conflict.
Tens of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the conflict sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to the United States. It comes as Russia has stepped up its bombardment of Ukraine's power grid and other critical civilian infrastructure. Some children were taken to the southern city of Mykolayiv and some psychiatric patients went to the Black Sea port of Odessa, which is also under Ukrainian control, Mr Yanushevych wrote on Telegram.
Mr Putin praised the women's sons for defending "Novorossiya" - literally "new Russia" - a loaded term from the tsarist empire that modern Russian nationalists use to describe the large parts of southern and eastern Ukraine that Russia now claims. Most did bring complaints but they were about low-level issues such as a lack of good clothing for the soldiers, the need for more drones at the front or the indifference of some officials.Other relatives of soldiers killed in the war said the Kremlin had ignored their pleas for a meeting and that the one hosted by Putin would be carefully staged.
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