In the Russian capital, an important police device was deployed in the Chistyye Prudy neighborhood, in the center, journalists from the AFP agency observed.
Most of the protesters present were wandering or standing still individually or in small groups to avoid detection and detention by the police, who managed to track them down and apprehend them anyway.
“We are not cannon fodder!” a woman launched as a group of riot police forcefully took her away. That is one of the slogans of the protesters who oppose the sending of reservists to Ukraine.
In St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city in the northwest, police took some 30 people aboard a security corps bus, the French news agency confirmed.
On Wednesday, when Putin announced the mobilization of reservists, about 1,400 protesters were arrested across Russia.
Some reported that the authorities gave them the mobilization order at the police station.
The Kremlin defended this practice, assuring that it is not “illegal”.
Demonstrations against the offensive in Ukraine are strongly repressed in Russia. Thousands of people have been detained since the military invasion began in February.
Instead, hundreds of citizens demonstrated yesterday in Moscow and Saint Petersburg to support the offensive and the annexation of areas controlled by Russia, and they were not arrested.
Source: Ambito
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