'Russia cannot win this war,' Alexei Gorinov said in a letter to Newsweek from jail. He was sentenced for 'spreading false information' about the Russian army.
Gorinov, a 61-year-old Russian opposition politician, a member of the municipal council of the Krasnoselsky district in Moscow, and a lawyer was sentenced on July 8, 2022, by a court in Russia's capital to seven years in a penal colony for criticizing what Putin calls a"special military operation" in Ukraine. His sentence was later cut by one month, and he was also banned from holding public office for four years after his release.
"Russia cannot win this war because it has already lost by starting it," wrote Gorinov."Look what happened: international isolation, a sharp drop in the standard of living of Russians, a huge budget deficit, tens of thousands of dead and wounded, total destruction in a neighboring country that requires restoration at our expense."
"Think about what country and with what problems you will leave the next generation of Russians, about children without fathers, about widows of the dead, about parents left without sons, about disabled people who require lifelong care. What have we forgotten in the neighboring country [Ukraine]? Wouldn't it be better to start arranging life in our vast Russia?"
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