In a viral video, a Russian soldier threatens Putin with an army mutiny. He says disgruntled military and security officials came to him and asked him to serve as their messenger.

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• 01In the video, Lunin claims that on June 24 and 25, officials visited him, including representatives of the Defense Ministry and other security agencies.
• 02In a viral video, a Russian soldier threatens Putin with an army mutiny. He says disgruntled military and security officials came to him and asked him to serve as their messenger.
• 03Within four hours, the video had racked up more than 3.5 million views and more than 125,000 likes on Instagram.
• 04A soldier from the Voronezh region who took part in the invasion of Ukraine and runs a blog on Instagram and other platforms, Alexander Lunin, has recorded a video message addressed to Vladimir Putin.
• 05If I don’t come to the Kremlin in the near future and speak, live, alongside you, the army will turn its weapons against the Kremlin — I am only passing on a message.
• 06They came to me for one simple reason: because I cannot be bought, because the president has heard me [sic],” Lunin added, promising “a meat grinder in the country.” At Meduza, we are committed to transparency about our use of artificial intelligence in the newsroom.
• 07Here is what else Lunin said: Right now, dozens — hundreds, thousands — of our soldiers are rotting in zindans [in pits], thrown there by their own commanders.