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Related: About this forumRussian mother gets phonecall her son is a POW in Ukraine and she asks the most important question:
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Russian mother gets a phone call from Ukraine, telling her that her son has been captured by the Ukrainian Army.
She proceeds to ask the most important question.
Is the iPhone 13 he was gifted back home whole & safe?
Maybe they can send the phone back?
She proceeds to ask the most important question.
Is the iPhone 13 he was gifted back home whole & safe?
Maybe they can send the phone back?
Putin not caring whether you live or die, that's one thing. But your own mother???
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Russian mother gets phonecall her son is a POW in Ukraine and she asks the most important question: (Original Post)
DetlefK
Oct 2022
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keithbvadu2
(36,816 posts)1. 1+
delisen
(6,044 posts)2. Or possibly desperation on the home front.
Maybe she considers her son safe as a Ukraine POW, and the rest of her family in Russia in worse circumstances.
If in fact she just cares more about the phone, perhaps he can become a Ukrainian citizen.
delisen
(6,044 posts)3. So intriguing I listened again.
Kindest interpretation I can think of is that she trusts Ukraine and is relieved he is a POW there.
Weird.
LakeArenal
(28,819 posts)4. Maybe she's hoping she'll be able to contact her son.
Judge not etc etc.
Deuxcents
(16,234 posts)5. Are they capable of compassion of any kind?
Are they all cold blooded?
DFW
(54,397 posts)6. An older friend of ours has a girlfriend in Russia he has not seen in almost 3 years
They talk (carefully) on the phone frequently, and he says it is scary how her whole thinking has been tainted by 3 years of nothing but Putins media.