” Where are they ? »: Families of missing or imprisoned Ukrainian soldiers demonstrated in kyiv on Monday, criticizing the “silence” of President Volodymyr Zelensky and the military command. Nearly 200 demonstrators, mostly women, gathered in the center of the Ukrainian capital, then marched to a military checkpoint near Volodymyr Zelensky’s offices to demand to be received by the president.
“Zelensky!” Zelensky! “, they chanted, some in tears, shouting their anger at the soldiers and police stationed there. “You are taking our men to the slaughterhouse,” one woman shouted. ” Where are they ? Give us back our children,” shouted another. The war has lasted six hundred days and the Ukrainian counter-offensive is making little progress.
The families complain about the little information subsequently obtained from the military command who, they accuse, often refuses to speak to them. The various units where their relatives served are fighting mainly in Donbass (east).