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SME Times News Bureau | 24 Feb, 2022
More than 150 senior Russian officials have signed an open letter
condemning President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine as 'an
unprecedented atrocity' and warning of 'catastrophic consequences',
Daily Mail reported.
The deputies said they were
'convinced' Russian citizens do not back the war and blamed Putin
'personally' for ordering troops into Ukraine in an attack 'for which
there is no and cannot be any justification', the report said.
The
letter urged Russians 'not to participate in the aggression' and called
on citizens to speak out against the invasion because 'only massive
popular condemnation can stop the war'.
Among the letter's
signatories were Moscow deputies Elena Rusakova, Maxim Gongalsky, Andrey
Morev, Elena Kotenochkina and Elena Filina, as well as St Petersburg
officials David Kuvaev and Polina Sizova, and Veliky Novgorod deputy
Anna Cherepanova.
It was a surprising step for Russian officials
to speak out against Putin, who usually holds an iron grip on dissent,
and last week televised a meeting with Moscow's top security chiefs in
which they appeared to be railroaded into backing his plans to invade
Ukraine, Daily Mail reported.
The letter, which described the
signatories as those 'elected by the people', said they 'unreservedly
condemn the attack of the Russian army on Ukraine'.
"This is an
unprecedented atrocity for which there is no and cannot be
justification. The decision to attack was made personally by Russian
President Vladimir Putin. We are convinced that the citizens of Russia
did not give him such a mandate," it said.
The letter warned of
'catastrophic consequences' - 'Thousands of people will die, be injured
and maimed, cities dear to many Russians will be destroyed', the report
said.
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