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‘Send back our husbands’ – Russian women taking the fight to Putin

Russia has mobilised 300,000 reservists to Ukraine. The Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports on the families fighting to bring them back.

Since President Putin’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, protests related to the conflict have been supressed inside Russia. But one group are publicly criticising the authorities.
More than 300,000 reservists have been mobilised to fight in the conflict. The Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Russia editor – Steve Rosenberg – has been speaking to the women in their lives, who are fighting to bring them home.

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