Furious Russian mothers accuse Vladimir Putin of deploying their sons as 'cannon fodder'

Angry Russian mothers have accused Vladimir Putin of deploying their sons as "cannon fodder" in his invasion of Ukraine, according to video footage of a confrontation with a regional governor that emerged on a day when police in Russia detained 4,500 anti-war protesters.

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In the video, Sergey Tsivilev, governor of the Kuzbass region in Siberia, stood forlornly on a stage in a school gym as angry soldiers' mothers accused the Kremlin of lying.

"We were all deceived, all deceived. They were sent there as cannon fodder, "one woman shouted. "They are young. They were unprepared."

As Mr Tsivilev, shuffling and mumbling, tried to frame Putin's invasion of Ukraine as a "special operation" and not a war, he was shouted down.

"This is a special operation and, at the moment, nobody can give comments about the special operation," he said. "These guys were used..."

"Used!" One mother interrupted. "So our children were used?"

It is not clear from the video, below, who the women are, and whether their sons have been killed in Ukraine.

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