Anti-war activists have taken to Russia’s streets to protest the country’s invasion of Ukraine, despite the arrests of hundreds of protesters each day by police. Russia’s paramilitary police, the OMON, have been dispatched to address the growing unrest.
The OVD-Info group monitoring protests and arrests in Russia said more than 6,000 people had been arrested for anti-war demonstrations since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 27.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the invasion was a special operation to demilitarize and “denazify” the country. Ukraine and the West have dismissed that justification as baseless propaganda.
