The Kremlin is paying the wives of front-line soldiers not to take part in protests against their husbands’ indefinite deployment, even as Russian leader Vladimir Putin orders 170,000 more troops to fight in Ukraine.
Russian authorities are “attempting to quash public dissent by the wives of deployed Russian soldiers, including by attempting to pay them and vilify them online,” read an intelligence briefing posted by British Ministry of Defence on X Saturday.
A prominent online group representing soldiers’ wives published a manifesto against “uncertain activists,” on Monday, according to a post from Defense Intelligence.
Three days later, the protest group was pinned with a “fake” warning label, “likely at the instigation of pro-Kremlin actors,” the briefing said.
Many of the soldiers were mobilized in September 2022, and have now been on the front lines for more than a year, the Ministry of Defense said.
The results come as a recent poll found that more than 74 percent of Russians support peace talks to end the war in Ukraine, according to Britain’s The Independent.
The crackdown comes amid a new deployment of 170,000 soldiers heading to places like Maryinka, a town in eastern Ukraine that has been devastated by more than a year of fighting.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government is paying soldiers’ wives not to object to their deployment to the front. via REUTERS Kremlin pays soldiers’ wives to end protests against unspecified deployment of their husbands to the front lines. SOPA/LightRocket image via Getty Images
Russian troops finally claimed to have captured the city on Saturday, although the desolate area that was once home to 10,000 residents was nothing more than a pile of rubble.
There are no civilians living in the city, according to reports.
Control over the town remains uncertain, with Ukraine’s General Staff claiming that Russian forces have failed in an attempt to bypass neighboring villages in the area but saying no troop movements in the town itself.
For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense did not mention Mayrinka in its communications.
Moscow is taking a hard line against soldiers’ wives protesting their husbands’ deployment in the Ukraine war. Getty Images
The number of Russian troops in Ukraine increased by more than 1.32 million with new deployments, according to reports.
Meanwhile, in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia, a nuclear power plant lost its power supply after the last remaining line to it from Ukrainian-held territory was disrupted.
It has since been repaired, the energy ministry said on Saturday, according to reports.
The Ukrainian plant was occupied by Russia in March 2022 and is no longer generating power, but it needs electricity to cool one of its four reactors which is in ‘hot conservation’ — meaning it has not been fully shut down .
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