“I was not interested in politics, I was not interested in what was happening in our state, I was not interested in laws – I was not interested in anything other than work-home, work-home, just how the way our average citizen lives. And so I lost my most beloved person. And now I'm awake,” says Maria, the wife of a mobilized man that died in Ukraine. She came to Berdyansk in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine to celebrate New Year with her husband, and found out that he died a day before that. “I have now arrived in those “new territories”. I came to my husband in Berdyansk in the Zaporizhzhia region. And you know what, I want to tell you that people here don’t need this. Nobody needs this. Our men, our beloved people are dying simply for nothing,” she continued. It took the loss of a loved one for her to start seeing the real picture. What number of losses would be sufficient for Russian society as a whole to understand the same truth?