According to the ISW team, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is quite afraid of the protests of the wives of Russian soldiers and what they might lead to.
The wives of the Russian occupiers protest again in the Russian Federation
On February 3, in the center of Moscow, wives of Russian soldiers fighting against Ukraine gathered again for a mass protest.
What is important to understand is that women citizens of the Russian Federation demand that the dictator Putin immediately return their husbands home.
The Russian security forces immediately pounced on the Russian women: they detained the women and pushed them into autocars.
In addition, opposition journalists who tried to cover these events also got it.
Participants of the public movement "The Way Home" gathered yesterday on Manezhnaya Square to "honor" the 500th day since Putin announced partial mobilization. This incident alarmed the Kremlin. The official Russian mass media were forbidden to show the action of the wives of the mobilized. Instead, the opposition media covered this event in detail. According to their data, almost 200 people gathered on the square.
Later it became known that the detained women were released.
Moreover, it is reported that the wives of those mobilized staged a protest near the police station for the release of all detainees.
Putin is frightened by the protests of Russian women
According to American analysts, Putin's actions against the background of protests are extremely eloquent.
Experts also draw attention to the fact that the Kremlin did everything possible to hinder the activities of media representatives and block general publicity about this event.
The Institute for the Study of War has concluded that Putin and his henchmen resort to so-called censorship and discrediting social movements of relatives of Russian soldiers in advance in order to avoid repeating the unpleasant experience of the USSR in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
For example, Kremlin spokesman Solovyov, commenting on the action on February 3, criticized women. He said that, they say, they are only wives of mobilized soldiers, not mothers, and therefore have no right to speak on behalf of soldiers from the front.
