A video circulating online this week appears to show a Siberian governor being confronted by the relatives of Russian police officers who were sent into Ukraine ascannon fodder.
The footage was taken at a meeting between the governor of the Kemerovo region in southwestern Siberia and relatives of local riot police officers.
According to RFE, a group of people gathered in the gymnasium of a riot police training base on Saturday to ask why the city's riot police unit had been deployed in Russia.
They lied to everyone. A woman can be heard off-screen.
A man is seen saying "No one has lied to anyone."
RFE reported that other voices can be heard saying that the officers were sent as cannon fodder and that they were told they were going to be deployed for military exercises.
According to the outlet, Tsivilev said the invasion was a special operation and nobody could comment on the situation.
The governor said that while a military operation is in progress, one shouldn't make any conclusions.
According to RFE, at least two Russian prisoners of war captured in Ukraine have identified themselves as police officers from Novokuznetsk.
According to Ukraine, Russian forces have suffered 11,000 casualties, though these claims have not been verified. Russian losses have been estimated by the Pentagon at between 2,000 and 4,000 troops.
Many of the videos and reports released by Ukrainian forces show demoralized Russian prisoners of war who said they had been deceived by the Kremlin. There is a video circulating on the internet that shows a captured Russian soldier crying as he is allowed to video call with his mother.
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