The wife of a Russian soldier in Ukraine was briefly arrested. She had come with other women to lay flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier as a sign of protest against the war in Ukraine.
A group of wives of soldiers mobilized in the war in Ukraine came on Saturday to lay flowers on the Eternal Flame, near the Kremlin wall in Moscow, according to Russian media SOTAvision.
Security forces present on site were filmed arresting one of the participants in the “Return Home” movement. She was the wife of a soldier, Maria Andreeva, but she was quickly released after checking her papers.
According to members of the association, laying flowers has now become the only legal form of protest against the war in Ukraine. Women have already come several times to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, located in the Alexander Garden, near the Kremlin walls, to pay respects to the dead, as a protest against the authorities.