A Krasnodar resident was arrested after visiting her grandmother in Kherson.

Security forces arrested a Krasnodar resident at the Sochi airport while visiting an elderly relative in Kherson. She has not been in contact for three months.

35-year-old Natalia, who had lived in Krasnodar for the past few years, was detained at passport control at the Sochi airport in early August. According to her husband, the woman, who worked as a nanny, was arrested for 11 days under an administrative offense but has not been released.

According to relatives, Natalia and her husband, Yuri, were residents of Kherson until November 2022. During the nine months that Russian troops were in the city, they organized a business delivering groceries from Russian-controlled territories to local stores, and after the Russian Armed Forces retreated, they decided to move to Krasnodar. The couple received Russian citizenship, according to the newspaper "Ostorozhno Novosti," citing relatives.

In June, Natalia traveled to Kherson to visit her grandmother, who was undergoing surgery. She entered Kherson through Ukraine and was detained upon her return to Russia on August 3. According to her husband, his wife called him from someone else's phone, explaining that FSB border guards had confiscated her phone and bank cards. Yuri believes his wife was forced to incriminate herself.

Yuri learned from security officials that Natalia had been arrested for 11 days under the administrative offense of disobeying a military serviceman (Article 18.7 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). On August 14, when her arrest expired, she was still not released from the temporary detention facility. The police told her husband that FSB officers had taken Natalia to Volgograd for "investigative measures," but the agency denied that Natalia was involved in any cases or investigations.

According to the man, he filed a missing persons report with the police at the end of August, but she was never put on the wanted list. An Interior Ministry officer advised him not to interfere, stating that Natalya was involved in a criminal case, and other law enforcement agencies were unable to provide her whereabouts in their responses.

"Caucasian Knot" wrote that Kurgan resident Elizaveta Ostroukhova, having arrived from Turkey in the summer, was unable to return home because she had been sent to Sochi under administrative arrest at least eight times. the woman has been held in isolation for over three months. According to Ostroukhova's lawyer, two more women, also arriving from Turkey, were detained in Sochi under similar circumstances. Their cases are unfolding according to an identical pattern: a series of administrative arrests without criminal proceedings.