Military man Alexander Lunin, who recorded an appeal to Vladimir Putin and threatened rebellion, was released after 11 days of administrative detention. He announced this on his social media sites certain Agency publication.
As journalists learned, Lunin was released from a special detention center in the Voronezh region on July 8. On the night of July 9, a message appeared on his social networks: videoHe reported that he “lost a little weight, gained some weight, but everything is fine.” According to him, he has already arrived in Moscow.
A day earlier, the head of the Federal Security and Anti-Corruption Project, informant Vitaly Borodin, posted a joint photo with a military man on his Telegram channel. “Alexander Lunin is alive and well, and everything is fine with him. We have been close all this time,” Borodin said.
Alexander Lunin is a military man from the Voronezh region who participated in the total war between Russia and Ukraine. He actively posted appeals to Vladimir Putin on social networks.
At the end of June, Lunin, in one of his videos, demanded that the president summon him to the Kremlin and hear live the “whole truth” about what is happening in Russia, including problems in the army. In case of refusal, he threatened military rebellion. The video received millions of views on Instagram.
It soon became known that Lunin’s house was searched, and he was placed under administrative detention under the article on display of extremist or Nazi symbols (20.3 of the Administrative Code). What became the official cause of the case is unknown.
The Kremlin, commenting on Lunin’s appeal, said that they had not watched the video itself, but considered that it contained “rather strange formulas.”