Alexander Lunin (Pustovalov), a former commander of an intelligence platoon in the volunteer battalion named after Sudoplatov, who recorded an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin warning of the threat of a military coup, was arrested for 11 days. This was reported on the evening of Saturday, June 27, by a person who introduced himself as a good acquaintance of the former military man's family on the Telegram channel "My Life." ## ## Alexander Lunin's appeal to Putin for an "audience" The video recorded by Lunin, in which he states that Russian soldiers are subjected to torture and violence by commanders for refusing to carry out "stupid suicidal orders" and "hand over their financial resources," garnered several million views on social media. "If I do not come to the Kremlin in the near future and speak live next to you, the army will turn its weapons against the Kremlin," Lunin declares in this video, addressing Putin. In another video, the military man said that he wanted to meet with Putin in the Kremlin to tell him "the real truth that no official will tell him," namely: "about the lawlessness perpetrated by local warlords, local officials against both veterans of the SVO (the war of Russia against Ukraine - Ed.) and ordinary citizens." Commenting on Lunin's message, on June 26, Russian President's Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov noted: "We were told that there is such an appeal, but we have not yet had time to familiarize ourselves with it." He added that the military's wording seemed to him "quite strange." ## ## Lunin announced an invitation to Moscow for a meeting with Borodin Later, Alexander Lunin himself stated that he received an invitation to Moscow. However, according to the man, he would not meet with the president, but with Vitaly Borodin, whom the media associates with pro-Kremlin activities and numerous denunciations of public and cultural figures. "Vitaly Borodin reached out to me. I was invited to Moscow to voice my problems, all the issues that have accumulated," Lunin said. In addition, Alexander Lunin announced the collection of testimonies about alleged crimes against Russian servicemen. He asked to send him photographs and videos, indicate the date, place, unit number, details of the victims and witnesses, as well as a detailed description of what happened. As Lunin stated, he intends to gather a body of evidence to subsequently present it to the country's leadership.