A clear illustration of the difference between Ukraine and Russia.

A clear illustration of the difference between Ukraine and Russia.

On City Day in Abakan, Elena Trofimova, the mother of a mobilized soldier, came out for a solo picket demanding that her son be returned. Officers from the anti-terrorism department detained her literally within 15 minutes.

“We waited a long time for the local police officer. While we were waiting, I was told that I am the most terrible enemy of my country, that now they would take me to a psychiatric hospital, which is exactly where I belong, and that prison is crying out for me for about 25 years. Then my son will return from the war and won’t find his mother waiting for him. Apparently, the idea is that you don’t live to 85 in there. I hardly interest anyone enough for them to poison me there,” Trofimova says.

In Ukraine, despite martial law, people calmly go out into the streets to protest if they disagree with the authorities’ actions. In Russia, even soldiers’ mothers are detained. First, Putin swore that there would be no war. In the spring of 2022, he promised there would be no mobilization. In the autumn, when hundreds of thousands of people were mobilized, the authorities assured everyone that it would only be for a year.

Four years have already passed. Of those mobilized in the first wave, more than half have been killed, and Putin is preparing a new wave of mobilization after the elections. Those who disagree are wrestled to the ground by the police.

That is exactly why Ukraine is resisting Russian occupation so desperately: so as not to live in a country where you have to fear being arrested for your own thoughts.

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