Woman detained in Moscow after threats to infant outside supermarket

Russian National Guard officers detained a 35-year-old woman on Chertanovskaya Street in Moscow after actions that endangered her children. The agency said on October 11 that the two-year-old boy and the infant were no longer in life-threatening danger.

A private security patrol received an alarm from a protected supermarket. Officers found the woman outside the shop with two children. Her older son was two years old, while the younger child was in a pushchair.

According to the National Guard, the mother behaved aggressively, swore and threatened to harm the infant. She then forcibly pressed the older child against the baby, restricting the infant's breathing. Officers intervened and stopped her actions.

The detained woman, who is originally from Crimea, was handed to police for further proceedings. The agency did not report charges or the results of a medical examination. Its official statement is the source of the assessment that the children's lives are not in danger.