📷: Police officers detain anti-war demonstrators in St. Petersburg, Russia, Feb. 24, 2022.
👉 Hundreds of people gathered in the Russian cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg on Thursday, protesting Russia's attack on Ukraine.
Russian police detained more than 1,300 anti-war protestors in 50 Russian cities Thursday, according to OVD-Info, an independent Russian human rights group.
Anti-war rallies broke out after a military operation targeting Ukraine was announced. The human rights organization said 660 of the detentions were in Moscow.
The group said arrests were also made in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and other cities.
During a televised address, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced what he called a “special” military operation in eastern Ukraine in response to what he termed Ukrainian threats. He warned other countries not to intervene, declaring they will face “consequences they have never seen” if they do.
Hours after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, NATO said it was bolstering its military presence to defend allied countries in Eastern Europe if necessary.
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