Military serviceman Alexander Lunin, who had earlier recorded a video appeal to Vladimir Putin, was placed under administrative arrest for 11 days. This was reported by the Telegram channel “#moyazhiznya,” which is linked to Lunin.
Earlier, on June 27, his wife Tatyana Lunina said in a TikTok post that their home had been searched. Lunin’s Instagram followers drew attention to the post. It was later deleted, but the video was reposted by the Telegram channel “Mobilization | News | What to Do?”
According to Tatyana Lunina, police came during the night and searched the grounds of the family home in the village of Lizinovka in the Voronezh region. She said officers then took “everything they found: flash drives, computers, laptops, a disk, something else, nunchucks.”
She also said Lunin himself was not at home, having left for Moscow the previous day. In the video, she said he had stopped responding and suggested that he might have been detained, or that he was still on the road without communication.
Later, Tatyana Lunina wrote on VKontakte: “Friends! I understand your worries, I’m worried too. Sasha is alive and well, he said not to post any information for now, not to give interviews, and not to respond to comments. We are just waiting.”
On June 25, Alexander Lunin, who took part in Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, published an appeal to Putin. He demanded a live, on-air meeting at the Kremlin so he could tell what he called “the whole truth” about what is happening in Russia, including problems within the army. Lunin also said that if the meeting was refused, “the army would turn its weapons against the Kremlin.”
Commenting on the appeal, the Kremlin said it had not seen the video itself, but considered the wording used in it to be “rather strange.”