[3] In August 2014 one of the members of the organisation stated that 100 wounded Russian soldiers who might have been injured fighting in Ukraine were taken to hospitals in Saint Petersburg.
The Russian government labelled the organisation a "foreign agent", a move which members of the organization see as retaliation on the part of the authorities.
[7] In October 2021, the local Committee of Soldiers' Mothers in Saint Petersburg stopped some of its activities in helping soldiers in response to the Federal Security Service (FSB)'s formal approval of a list of 60 actions that are considered to be those of a foreign agent under Russian foreign agent law and can lead to criminal liability.
The Committee stated that the FSB's list of liable actions severely limited the activities of human rights defenders, lawyers and journalists.
Alexander Latynin, a lawyer advising the Committee, stated that conscripts who had served less than four months could legally be transferred outside of Russia, but were not permitted to participate in combat.