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A week-long protest of the wives of mobilized Russian soldiers, The Way Home, began in the center of Moscow on Feb. 3 with the demand that authorities return the men from the war of aggression against Ukraine, the Russian Telegram news channel SOTA reports.
A Telegram group containing soldiers' family members says keeping men on the front line indefinitely is a violation of Russian law.
The Russian authorities are trying to suppress public protests by the wives of Russian soldiers, including through pay-offs and discrediting them online, following small protests in Moscow in November, UK Defense Intelligence said in a report posted on X on Dec. 2.
Russian military personnel and their relatives see their long-term deployment at the front without the possibility of rotation as unsustainable, the UK’s Defense Intelligence said in its latest Ukraine situation report, published on Nov. 20.