Former serviceman Alexander Lunin has reportedly been placed under arrest for 11 days, according to a post on his Telegram channel. The message was published in the name of an administrator who described himself as a friend of the family.
The post says Lunin’s wife was told that he is “alive and well”, but that he was held administratively liable and detained for 11 days. It is not known under which specific charge he was arrested.
Earlier, his wife, Tatyana Lunina, said police officers came at night to search their home in the village of Lizinovka in the Voronezh region. According to her, officers seized computer equipment, flash drives, laptops, a disk, and other items.
Lunin himself was not at home during the search. The day before, he had left for Moscow and then stopped responding. Later, his wife deleted a video from TikTok and wrote on VKontakte that he was “alive and well” and had asked that nothing be commented on for the time being.
Context
On June 25, the 39-year-old serviceman from the Voronezh region posted a video address on social media demanding a personal meeting with Vladimir Putin. In case of refusal, he said that
“the army will turn its weapons against the Kremlin”
Lunin later said that, according to him, he was not calling for a coup but was only trying to pass information to Putin about what was happening at the front.