01-04-2022, 09:59 AM
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...s-ukraine/
Twin brothers killed on the same day are among a growing number of young Russians sent to their deaths in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin is facing backlash as the number of soldiers killed on the front line soars - many of them young conscripts who were never meant to face the worst of the war.
The Russian president is embroiled in a feud with military leaders, who, according to reports, misled him on the use of young soldiers in the cities of Mariupol, Kherson and many others.
Shellshocked soldiers say they were sent over the border under the belief they were “saving” Ukrainians, only to meet a brutal battle raging much longer than promised.
Mothers have accused Putin of using their children as "cannon fodder" who had no idea they were being launched into a full-scale war. "They are young. They were unprepared,” a group shouted at officials earlier this month.
In the city of Novocherkassk, a pair of coffins, draped with the Russian flag and surrounded by hundreds of mourners, were lowered into the ground on Tuesday.
Inside were the bodies of two young men: Alexei and Anton Vorobyov, both 29. They had served side by side.
Twin brothers killed on the same day are among a growing number of young Russians sent to their deaths in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin is facing backlash as the number of soldiers killed on the front line soars - many of them young conscripts who were never meant to face the worst of the war.
The Russian president is embroiled in a feud with military leaders, who, according to reports, misled him on the use of young soldiers in the cities of Mariupol, Kherson and many others.
Shellshocked soldiers say they were sent over the border under the belief they were “saving” Ukrainians, only to meet a brutal battle raging much longer than promised.
Mothers have accused Putin of using their children as "cannon fodder" who had no idea they were being launched into a full-scale war. "They are young. They were unprepared,” a group shouted at officials earlier this month.
In the city of Novocherkassk, a pair of coffins, draped with the Russian flag and surrounded by hundreds of mourners, were lowered into the ground on Tuesday.
Inside were the bodies of two young men: Alexei and Anton Vorobyov, both 29. They had served side by side.