The fight by Russian dissidents against Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine
Evegnia Kara-Murza woke up and immediately picked up her phone. Ukrainian women, she saw, had started sharing screenshots online of their last messages to their husbands, boyfriends and brothers on the frontlines.
They began with a trivial message, something like “How are you honey?”. But with each unanswered message, they grew more panicked. “Honey, just write back. Just write anything. I just want to know that you are okay,” one said.
By then, these women knew what had happened. They knew they would not get a response. They knew their partners, their siblings, had been killed by Russian soldiers.
Reading through these messages, Evgenia began to break down. She felt like she was about to have another panic attack.
They reminded her of the last message she sent to her husband, nearly two years earlier.
It was 11 April 2022. Vladimir Kara-Murza had just been arrested.
