Officials belonging to Vladimir Putin’s political party have been found gifting meat grinders to the mothers of fallen soldiers in Ukraine.
According to The Moscow Times, officials from the United Russia party have visited the homes of grieving mothers and presented them with meat grinders.
The report explains:
The ruling United Russia party in Russia’s northern Murmansk region has sparked controversy after gifting meat grinders to the mothers of soldiers killed in Ukraine.
The kitchen appliance has become a grim symbol of the Russian military’s high-casualty assaults in the Ukraine war. The Wagner mercenary group had previously awarded “Bakhmut Meat Grinder” medals to its fighters.
United Russia’s local chapter in the town of Polyarnye Zori included meat grinders in gift packages to mothers whose sons died in the war, according to photos published on the party’s social media account Wednesday.
However, United Russia’s Murmansk chapter pushed back against the widespread criticism of their choice as gifts, calling the attacks “inhumane and provocative” and suggesting the mothers had requested the meat grinders as gifts.
“The meat grinder was not part of the standard gift set, but one woman asked for it, and of course [party members] could not refuse her,”