"Detentions in Moscow: Protests for Troop Return from Ukraine"

Wives and relatives of Russian soldiers mobilised to fight in Ukraine held a protest in Moscow, calling for their return and marking 500 days since Putin's order for a "partial mobilisation." About two dozen people, mostly journalists, were briefly detained at the demonstration, organized by the campaign group The Way Home. The protesters demanded the return of their loved ones and rejected accusations of being Western stooges, with some laying flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier before heading to Putin's campaign headquarters to present their demands.