MOSCOW, Russia - Where U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have failed to make Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledge his ever-more-overt invasion of Ukraine and think about pulling back, Valentina Melnikova, the head of Russia's famous Soldiers' Mothers Committee, might just have a chance.
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Ludmila Hohlova, chairwoman of the Kostroma Board of Soldiers' Mothers, gestures on Aug. 28 near a checkpoint of the Russian paratroopers' base in Kostroma, some 350 kilometers outside Moscow.
