Former military man who demanded a meeting with Putin is allegedly arrested for 11 days

Former military man Alexander Lunin was arrested for 11 days, according to his Telegram channel. The message was published on behalf of the administrator, who identified himself as an acquaintance of the family. According to him, the military man’s wife reported that Lunin was “alive and well,” but he was brought to administrative responsibility and “detained” for 11 days. It is unknown on what charges he was arrested.

Earlier, Lunin’s wife Tatyana said that at night police came to their house in the village of Lizinovka, Voronezh region, with a search. According to her, security forces seized computer equipment, flash drives, laptops, disks and other things. Lunin himself was not at home at that moment: the day before he had left for Moscow and stopped communicating. Later, Lunin’s wife deleted the video from TikTok, and then wrote on VKontakte that he was “alive and well” and asked not to comment on anything for now.

🔵 Context . On June 25, 39-year-old military man from the Voronezh region Alexander Lunin published a video message to Vladimir Putin on social networks, where he demanded a personal meeting. In case of refusal, he threatened that “the army will deploy its weapons against the Kremlin.” Lunin later explained that he was not calling for a coup, but was only trying to convey information to Putin about what was happening at the front.