Elena Belova, a Russian anti-war protester, was arrested by the police in Moscow, Russia, after setting a luxury SUV belonging to Yevgeny Sektarev, Vladimir Putin’s deputy head of general staff, ablaze.

According to the UK Daily Mail, Belova, a 65-year-old pensioner, first poured petrol on Sektarev’s car before setting it on fire in protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

While being apprehended, the pensioner said she was taking part in her own ”special military operation”.

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Her gesture has, however, been confirmed to be a protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Sekretarev, a Russian army general, is in charge of the Kremlin department responsible for military censorship.

Presently, any Russian citizen who speaks out against the war risks a sentence of up to 15 years behind bars. A recently established law allows citizens to only describe the invasion as a ”special military operation”.

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The incident came a week after Darya Dugin, daughter of Alexander Dugin, another close ally of Putin, died in a car bomb explosion.

Dugin, who was returning from a festival, “got blown into pieces” in an assassination attempt that was meant for her father.