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Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet the mothers of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine. Photo/The Guardian
According to the United States (US), the war in Ukraine has killed and injured tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has also sparked the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.
Hundreds of thousands of Russian troops have been sent to fight in Ukraine, including more than 300,000 reservists called up as part of the mobilizations announced by Putin in September.
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“On the eve of Mother’s Day, which is celebrated in Russia on the last Sunday of November, Vladimir Putin will meet the mothers of servicemen participating in military special operations,” the Kremlin said in a statement. Al Arabia.
The Kremlin has said Putin will meet the mothers of reservists called up for combat as well as professional soldiers of the armed forces.
Putin said he had no regrets about launching what he called Russia’s “special military operation” against Ukraine and saw the war as the watershed moment in which Russia finally stood up to arrogant Western hegemony after decades of humiliation since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Ukraine and the West say Putin has no justification for what they call an imperial-style war of occupation. Ukraine says it will fight until the last Russian soldier leaves its territory.
Ukraine has disclosed no losses. Russia last disclosed losses on Sept. 21, when Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed. But that figure is far below the estimates of most of the international world.
The top US general on Nov. 9 estimated that Russia and Ukraine each saw more than 100,000 of their troops killed or wounded.
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