The families of the Russian soldiers recently captured in Ukraine are pleading with the Russian government to return their children from what Russians are increasingly referring to as an “undeclared war” in Eastern Ukraine. The families appealed directly to the ![Russian Soldiers Families to Russian Government: "Give Us Back Our Children" Killed in Undeclared War [with video]](https://thespeakernewsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ScreenHunter_723-Sep.-01-19.21.jpg)
Russian president and military leaders to return the soldiers alive and well, and asked for those in power to “help them.”
“Dear President, Minister of Defense, military commanders, my child, Yegor Potchoyev, is now a captive of the territory of Ukraine,” said the mother of the soldier in a plea to the Russian government. “In the name of Christ, I beg you: give me back my child, return him alive, and all the other boys who are with him in captivity.
“Son, boys, we are with you. Whatever happens, we’ll get you out of this fix. If the military leaders won’t do it, then we will, your mothers.”
Although Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied Russia’s involvement in Ukraine since its military mission in Crimea in late February and March, the first news of the deaths of Russian soldiers’ has reached the Russian public. The news reached Russians through Russian independent media and Ukrainian channels.
The Ukrainian government televised the capture of 10 regular Russian soldiers, paratroopers apprehended in Eastern Ukraine.
Other Russian soldiers were missing and some killed, reportedly.
The prominent Russian group Soldiers’ Mothers has been loudly declaiming Putin and the government for its actions in Ukraine–which the group has called an “undeclared war.”
“Two days ago everything was different,” said another captured soldier’s family member. “I’m a patriot of my country and if the president and the minister of foreign affairs say none of our troops are in Ukraine, they’re only at the border, how can we not believe him? I love our president, honestly.
“But now we’ve all changed our opinion, because of this case. Now, of course, I believe our troops are taking part in a war.”
The families of the captured soldiers asked for the safe return of their children, and pled, “Save them. Help us. Return them home alive and well.”
By Day Blakely Donaldson
Russian soldiers families in video published by Telegraph.uk