Russian women have made an emotional appeal to Vladimir Putin to bring their men home from his "meat grinder" war.
The demand by wives and mothers in Vologda is latest showing ordinary people ready to defy draconian laws by criticising the army and calling for mobilised troops to be released from duty.
They said: “The time to act has arrived, not to think and wait for everyone to be minced in this bloody mincer,” said the women in the public video address to Putin and their regional governor.
