Updated On: 05 June, 2024 08:47 AM IST | Moscow | Agencies
Groups of women who are the relatives of men who were mobilised into the Russian army by President Vladimir Putin have been holding small-scale protests for months

The women kneeling outside the Russian Defence Ministry office in Moscow. Pic/AFP
A group of about 20 women got down on their knees outside Russia’s Defence Ministry to hold a rare protest and demand the return of their mobilised soldier husbands and sons from Ukraine.
Groups of women who are the relatives of men who were mobilised into the Russian army by President Vladimir Putin have been holding small-scale protests for months.