Putin’s resort to conscripting prisoners and immigrants, many of them undocumented, is unlikely to reverberate politically. But protests among ethnic Russians are another matter altogether. Last month, the wives and mothers of mobilized reservists staged a rally demanding the return of their loved ones who have spent a year in the trenches. “People are tired [of the war], and [it is] important [for the authorities] to demonstrate that nothing is threatening people’s normal lives,” the women wrote in a post on Put’ domoy (“The Road Home”), a Telegram channel with 25,000 subscribers. “But we are telling you, our friends: [your lives] are being threatened—and how! We have been fucked over and you will be fucked too. Here and now we are creating a foundation of societal unity against a mobilization of unlimited duration.”
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