On 24 February 2024, at least three journalists were detained at an anti-mobilization protest which was held in Moscow, Russian independent media reported. The detained journalists were SOTAvision correspondents Anna Sliva and Mikhail Lebedev, as well as RusNews correspondent Yulia Petrova. All three were taken to a local police station together with several protesters. Petrova and Lebedev were released later on the same day without charges, while Sliva was forced to stay overnight at the police station. On February 26, a court sentenced her to 60 hours of community work for having laid flowers near the Kremlin to commemorate mobilized soldiers killed in Ukraine, in a separate event not related to her work as a journalist.