Mothers and wives must take part of blame for big losses, military newspaper argues
Relatives that reveal the location of soldiers on the front line should be punished, a warning published by Northern Fleet newspaper Na Strazhe Zapolyarya reads.
"Every other mother and wife talks with third parties, including the enemy, about the location of their men in Ukraine. This information is compiled by the enemy and used for precision strikes."
The warning comes as unofficial numbers of killed and wounded Russian soldiers exceed 800,000. Relatives are desperate for information about their beloved ones.
According to the warning republished this week by the Russian Navy newspaper, the Ukrainians run and operate 95 percent of all websites and social media pages that provide information about Russian men on the battlefield.
"They cooperate directly with the Ukrainian Intelligence Service and Ukrainian Armed Forces," the message reads.
"You, my dear mothers and wives, provide the exact whereabouts of the warriors and thus take part in the killing, not only of your own men, but also other soldiers. You provide the positions of the training fields, whereupon Himars are fired. You provide not only directions, but also villages and streets, whereupon drones fly."
According to the message, the women should be punished.
"I call for the punishment in court of the ones that provide information about Russian servicemen to the Ukrainian side," the text reads.
Behind the warning stands Anastasia Kashavarova, a blogger and propagandist, and previously editor of news site Daily Storm.
She originally posted the text on her Telegram channel, and it was subsequently shared on several social media pages and news sites.
Judging from the VK page and Telegram channel of Kashavarova, she is closely associated with Russian militant groups. She has repeatedly been on occupied Ukrainian land and also appears to have a connection to Chechnya and its militant ruler Ramzan Kadyrov.
In 2018, Kadyrov posted a birthday greeting to Kashavarova on his VK page.
The Na Strazhe Zapolyarya is the newspaper run and operated by the Northern Fleet. It is based in Severomorsk, the Navy city in the Kola Peninsula. Like most of the editorial staff, newly appointed editor in chief Andrei Luzik is himself a military man.
Luzik is also outspoken about his love for Soviet tyrant Josef Stalin.
"Did the people love Stalin? […] Yes, there was a totalitarian system, but there was no lawlessness. Yes, there was repression, but not to the extent that was "witnessed" by "witnesses" like Solzhenitsyn. There were minuses, but the plusses were more," he writes on his VK page.
