According to OVD-Info, an organization specialized in counting arrests, the mobilizations took place in at least 23 cities throughout the country. AFP journalists in Moscow they saw at least 50 people detained in one of the central streets of the capital. In St. Petersburgthe second largest city in Russia, the police took away a bus full of detainees.
The protesters chanted “No to war!” and “No to the mobilization!”.
“Everyone is afraid. I am for peace and I don’t want to have to shoot. But it is very dangerous to go out now, otherwise there would have been a lot more people,” said St. Petersburg protester Vasily Fedorov, a student carrying a peace emblem on the chest.
Alexei Zavarki, 60, lamented the police response to the rallies. “I came to participate, but it seems that they have already taken everyone away,” he said. “I don’t know where we’re going, this regime has signed its death warranthas destroyed the youth,” he said.
In an address to the nation on Wednesday, Vladimir Putin decreed a partial mobilization of Russian reservists for the offensive in Ukraine and said he was ready to use “all means” of his nuclear arsenal against the West.
Source: Ambito
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