It's been a busy few days for a formerly obscure Russian blogger and veteran of Moscow's war on Ukraine who calls himself Aleksandr Lunin.
On June 25, he posted a video in Instagram in which he described what he called widespread torture of soldiers in the war zone by their own officers and demanded a live, on-air meeting with President Vladimir Putin and warned that if it did not take place soon, "the army will turn its weapons against the Kremlin."
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You can go to about 10 min 30 secs in here for translated version of his post:
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Apparently he later backed off a bit.
"The episode came amid growing signs of fatigue among Russians over the war, which Western intelligence agencies estimate has killed more than half a million Russian soldiers.
In the video posted on social media on June 25, Lunin asserted that "dozens, hundreds, thousands of our soldiers are rotting in [pits], thrown there by their own commanders.
"Just sitting, rotting, being tortured and abused by what their own ranks call the Gestapo. Why? For refusing to follow idiotic, suicidal orders. For refusing to hand over their own money. And in the end they are zeroed out, listed as missing in action."
In the June 26 post he said that he has received "thousands of messages, with video confirmation" of abuse.