Support Group For Russian Soldiers Stops Activities Under Government Pressure

Olga Tsukanova, a leader of the Council of Mothers and Wives of Russian soldiers, said on July 28 that the group had stopped its activities after the Justice Ministry added the council and its leaders to the list of "foreign agents." Tsukanova said in a video statement that the decision was made because it is "humiliating" to mark the group's materials with a sign of "a foreign agent." Tsukanova added that she personally had been labeled as "a foreign agent" because she openly talked about problems faced by Russian men mobilized to the war in Ukraine. To read the original story by RFE/RL's North.Realities, click here.