The former commander, who threatened Putin with a military mutiny, was searched. His channel reported an 11-day arrest

The former commander of the Sudoplatov volunteer battalion, Alexander Lunin, who recorded a video message to Vladimir Putin threatening a military mutiny, was searched. His wife Tatyana Lunina spoke about this in a subsequently deleted video on TikTok, which was saved by the Telegram channel “Mobilization | News | What to do?". Later, Lunin’s Telegram channel reported that he was brought to administrative responsibility and detained for 11 days.

According to Tatyana Lunina, her husband had left for Moscow by car the day before, after which he stopped communicating. At night, police came to their house in the village of Lizinovka, Rossoshansky district, Voronezh region. They confiscated “everything they found: flash drives, computers, laptops, disks, nunchucks,” the military wife said. According to her, she was at home with two children and did not see the search warrant.

Later, Tatyana Lunina wrote on her VKontakte page that her husband was “alive and well” and asked not to publish information about him for now, not to give interviews or respond to comments. Then a post appeared on Lunin’s Telegram channel on behalf of his administrator and a family friend. It claims that Lunin's wife reported that he was "brought to administrative responsibility and detained for 11 days." The article of the Code of Administrative Offenses, the court and other details of the case are unknown.

On June 25, Lunin published a video message to Putin, which received more than 15 million views in two days. He said Russian military personnel were being tortured and abused by their commanders for refusing to carry out “stupid and suicidal” orders or hand over money. Lunin demanded to be given a “live audience” and said:

“If I don’t come to the Kremlin soon and speak live next to you, the army will turn its weapons against the Kremlin.”