​A Russian governor in Siberia tried to comfort the mothers of soldiers sent to war, telling them that their sons did not really belong to them, but to the state.

“From time immemorial, women have always raised their sons in the spirit of patriotism, in the spirit of protecting their Motherland, their territory, the place where they live, and probably for all of you and for me personally, when I entered the Military Academy, my mother said a wonderful sentence: “from now on, you are no longer mine, you belong to the state, to the Motherland,” says Ihor Kobzev, the governor of the Irkutsk region in Siberia.

“It is with great respect and understanding that I hand over an 18-year-old boy to serve in the armed forces, and you become a public figure,” the Russian official also claims, which his mother would have handed over to the teachers of the higher school. Military engineering aviation school in the city of Voronezh, where he studied.

Irkutsk’s Kobzev region borders Buryatia and Tuva, the home region of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who suffered the heaviest casualties in the “special forces operation” launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24.

Kobzev’s message comes in the context of the fact that the Russian armed forces would have recorded record losses in Ukraine in November amid intense fighting in the Kherson region and in the east of the country.

On October 28, Russia’s defense minister announced that the military leadership had completed the mobilization of the 300,000 “reservists” that Putin announced in September would be called up as part of a “partial mobilization.”

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