Vladimir Putin has mobilised Russia's version of Santa to garner support his failing war in Ukraine as families mourned their dead at a memorial.
Wives, mothers and children were seen weeping as they marked the addition of 60 new names to a Russian war memorial in the provincial city of Saratov, while a cheerful 'Grandfather Frost' visited children in a sick twisted show.
Bereft Russians have been pictured grasping images of their lost sons, fathers and husbands - as they are told the lie that the men died defending their country in a war against NATO, rather than as a direct result of the Kremlin leader’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
