Some 20 journalists were detained by police in central Moscow on Saturday at a rally of Russian soldiers’ wives calling for their men to be returned from the front in Ukraine.

Independent Russian news outlet SOTA reported that 27 people were taken from the demonstration and transported to the nearesReuters news agency said one of its journalists was among those detained while filming women laying red carnations at the tomb of the unknown soldier in the shadow of the Kremlin’s walls in central Moscow.