Critical mother from Russia ratted out by Anna, who has already ratted out nearly 800 Russians | Abroad

Mother Alla Fatchelislamova from the Tyumen region (more than 2,000 kilometers east of Moscow) lost her conscripted son at the end of 2022 during shelling of Belgorod. That southern Russian region borders Ukraine and has been bombarded with missiles and drones in recent months. Russian rebel groups from Ukraine also regularly invade the area.

In an interview on the YouTube channel of the independent news site ‘Novaja Gazeta Europa’, the mother expressed doubts about the meaning of the “special military operation”, as Moscow still calls the large-scale bloodshed in Ukraine.

“To be honest, when the war started, I watched (the news, ed.), I cried all the time and I was worried. Who needs this war? No one. Even when my son was not yet in the army at the beginning, I cried for strangers,” said Fatchelislamova, among other things.

The woman tells the local site ’72.ru’ that after the offending interview, the police suddenly arrived at her home. Agents showed her on a smartphone that a report had been received against her. “They asked why I gave the interview and didn’t even know my son was dead,” Fatchelislamova said. “Then they came to my work to show me a paper version of the declaration.”

The report turned out to come from one Anna Korobkova. The Russian called himself a “professional whistleblower” on a Telegram channel and prides himself on having already turned 764 compatriots to the police who expressed criticism about the struggle in Ukraine.

According to Fatchelislamova, Korobkova wrote in the indictment that she “should be severely punished” for “discrediting” the army, because “even during the Great Patriotic War (World War II, ed.) the relatives of the dead did not have the right had to speak out against it”.

Korobkova may be one of the loudest snitches, but certainly not the only one. There are no official statistics, but their numbers have grown since the invasion of Ukraine began, Russian lawyers say. The criminal cases that follow a report lead to fines of hundreds of euros, dismissal or even imprisonment.

For Russian pro-Kremlin political scientist and regular guest on state TV talk shows, Pavel Danilin, it’s still not enough. “Unfortunately, people still write too few charges,” he said recently.