 Russian investigators have detained prominent Russian nationalist Igor Gurkin, his wife said on July 21, a move which suggests authorities may have worried of his criticism of how Moscow is running its special military operation in Ukraine. Gurkin, who was also known as Igor Strelkov, helped Russia annex Crimea in 2014 and then organize pro-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine. A former Federal Security Service officer, he said earlier this year that he was entering politics and has been increasingly critical of President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu over what he has called the incompetent way Moscow is running its military campaign in Ukraine. In a message posted on Gurkin's official telegram account, his wife, Miroslava Regenskaya, said, today, at about 11.30, representatives of the investigative committee came to our house. I was not at home. Soon, according to the concierge, they took my husband out by his arms and in an unknown direction. I also produced a series of strikes from the radioactive systems of the Alps in Ognia, as I have already said, Gratu-Uragan.