Spouses of Russian soldiers traveled to a military base on the border with Ukraine, The Insider reported. They said their husbands were wounded in the front and asked to leave the country. One woman said that if the officials did not help, she would go to the front to save the soldiers herself.
Wives of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine showed up at the border and demanded to take their husbands home, independent Russian news agency The Insider reported. A group of about 20 relatives traveled to a military base in the Russian city of Valuiki on Wednesday night, the report said. Valuiki is about 30 miles (50km) from Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine. The group, which was made up mostly of women, asked for their husbands to be transferred from Ukraine, claiming they had been injured fighting on the front lines, The Insider reported. (Insider is a Russian news outlet and is not affiliated with Insider.) “I’m ready to tear them up,” one of the women told officials at the military base, according to The Insider. “They have to do something, they have to make a decision, they have to get them out of there.” “We want them to be taken from there because there are many wounded,” he added. Another relative said that if officials could not help them, she would go to the front herself to rescue the soldiers, The Insider reported, citing a separate report published on the Telegram channel of the independent Russian news agency Verstka. It’s unclear whether the women got the answers they were looking for. Verstka said officials were helping the women track down their husbands. Insider was unable to independently verify these reports. The report comes after Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu called on his troops to withdraw from Kherson, Ukraine’s first major city and only regional capital captured by Russia since the start of its invasion in February. This announcement marked one of the most significant setbacks for Russia so far in its war in Ukraine. The story continues Top US general Mark Milley estimated on Wednesday that more than 100,000 Russian soldiers have been “killed and wounded” since Russia invaded Ukraine, Reuters reported. It is not clear where he got the information. Reuters and Insider did not independently verify the numbers. Read the original article on Business Insider
