Reuters
Anti-war protests held in cities across Russia, 2,000 arrested
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Police detained more than 2,000 people on Sunday during anti-war protests in 48 cities across Russia, a protest monitoring group said, as people defied authorities to show their anger at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. According to the OVD-Info monitor, which has been documenting the crackdown on the Russian opposition for years, more than 5,500 people have been detained in various anti-war protests since the invasion began on Thursday. In Moscow, riot police often outnumbered the protesters, some of whom carried handwritten placards with peace signs and anti-war slogans in Russian and Ukrainian.
