"It is your children dying": Lithuanian women appeal to Russian mothers to stop war

By Andrius Sytas

VILNIUS – A number of thousand lady protested on the Russian Embassy within the Lithuanian capital on Sunday, calling on Russian girls to stand up and cease the conflict in Ukraine.

“As we speak we ship the message for the moms of Russian troopers. You'll be able to cease this conflict … If solely you'll go to the streets and say ‘we don’t need this conflict after we don’t need our kids to die’,” march organiser Daiva Zeimyte mentioned.

Protester Ineta Miliniene added: “We wish to ask Russian girls – cease conflict. You are able to do this. You are able to do this as a result of it's your kids dying.”

Demonstrations in opposition to the battle have been held world wide, together with in Russia, the place greater than 5,500 protesters have been detained since Thursday, the OVD-Information monitoring group mentioned.

A Ukrainian presidential adviser has mentioned 3,500 Russian troopers had been killed or wounded. Reuters was not capable of confirm the numbers. Western officers have mentioned intelligence exhibits Russia struggling greater casualties than anticipated, however Russia has not launched casualty figures.

Lithuania, along with its Baltic neighbours Latvia and Estonia, was dominated from Moscow till 1991. The three have since joined the European Union and NATO navy alliance.

“I can’t keep at residence and do nothing,” mentioned Indre Gasenceviciene, bursting into tears as she spoke alongside her husband and her two kids, aged 2-1/2 years and 6 months.