Video The thousands of Russians who have shown against the war in Ukraine faced the police force, massively deployed. More than 6,000 of them were arrested in four days.
“It is the war of our leaders, not ours”, insists Magomed Ragimov, a Russian student came to St. Petersburg, Sunday, February 27. Like thousands of his fellow citizens, he wanted to express his disagreement with the invasion launched by Moscow in Ukraine on February 24th.
The police made thousands of arrests. Since the beginning of the offensive, more than 6,000 protesters have been arrested by the authorities, according to the figures of the Russian NGO ODV-info.
“I do not know what instruments we have to express our disagreement” with the war, regrets a resident of Moscow, come to deposit flowers in front of the Ukraine embassy in the capital, Sunday, February 27. His wish is to convince the Russian government to “cease this fratricidal war”.