'What's happening is a disgrace,' says 76-year-old Elena Osipova, a St. Petersburg artist who has been arrested for protesting Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
is approaching 10 million, nearly a quarter of Ukraine's total population. That includes more than three million refugees who have fled to other countries and roughly 6.5 million internally displaced persons who have been uprooted but remain inside the besieged nation. that up to 90% of Ukraine's population will be living on $5.
"Russian citizens are being involved in military operations on the territory of Ukraine, where they become accomplices in war crimes and die themselves," states the letter."Our first goal is to help them avoid this, relying on the constitution and Russian legislation, and to assist all those who are illegally forced to participate in hostilities."the deaths of just 498 of its troops, Kyiv reports that more than 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed.
"There is no official updated information about the dead, about the transfer of bodies to families, about prisoners, about their release or exchange," the letter says."It is difficult or impossible for relatives to find out what has become of their sons and husbands, or to get the bodies of the dead."
The letter echoes a statement released last month by a two million-member confederation of Russian labor unions, which that"it is the working people of our countries, on both sides, who are suffering as a direct result of military conflict."
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