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On the second anniversary of the mobilization, relatives of those mobilized gathered outside the Ministry of Defense building in Moscow. They demand the return of their husbands, sons, and brothers from the war in Ukraine.

The mother of a mobilized soldier from Novosibirsk, Lidiya Nekrasova (known online as Mama Lida), unfurled a poster with the words "DEmobilization." The woman said Olga,that at the Novosibirsk airport, her passport was taken away and they tried to force her to sign some kind of paper promising not to attend the “unauthorized protest.” 

Participants of the action сообщаютOn Frunzenskaya Embankment, near the Ministry of Defense building, there are "a lot of strange men who, for some reason, aren't at the front." Young men and women are insulting the protesters, calling their husbands "nobodies," and have even brought some to tears. 

"They asked me what it was like to be a member of a foreign cult. What language should they speak to me? And they were apparently trying to unsettle me," wrote Olga Tsukanova, head of the Council of Mothers and Wives (which ceased operations in the summer of 2023 after being designated a "foreign agent"), also attended the protest. 

The women report that the police remained inactive throughout the entire process, and then He accused one of the participants in the action of stealing a phone.

OVD-Info reports that police have detained several people, including two SOTAvision correspondents.