about twenty journalists they were arrested this Saturday in Moscowcapital of Russia, when several media covered it a demonstration of women soldiers fighting in Ukraine and ask for the return of their husbands.
A cameraman from a news agency AFParrested during the protest, he estimates between 8pm and 10pm journalists were next to him in the police van that took him to a police station from the Russian capital after being arrested by local police.
For several weeks the wives of soldiers mobilized in Ukraine have grouped together in a movement called “Road Home” they meet at Red Square, in front of the Kremlin, to ask that Vladimir Putin’s regime the return of their husbands, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine which began in February 2022.
This is a sensitive issue for the authorities, who have so far refrained from repressing the nascent protest movement.
Generally, Russian media does not cover these protests and the Kremlin tries at all costs to show an image of unity around President Putin, especially in the face of the suspected presidential fraud in March 2024, in which the president is almost certain of victory.
Source: Clarin
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