BREAKING: Large anti-war protests break out all over Russian including 2,000 in Moscow's Pushkin Square. 1700 people already arrested by police.

There are 12 million people in Moscow.
2000 protestors.
So 1 in 6000 are pissed about the war.

Those aren't communists.

2,000 people protesting isn't large. They are probably all the assets/paid operatives, Neo Liberals have in Russia.

There are 12 million people in Moscow.
2000 protestors.
So 1 in 6000 are pissed about the war.

Russian police have detained more than 1,700 people at anti-war protests across dozens of cities as thousands took to the streets after President Vladimir Putin sent troops to invade Ukraine, an independent monitor said Thursday.

Many in Russia had been sceptical about Putin's plans to attack the pro-Western neighbour.

Moscow was asleep when Putin ordered an air and ground assault on Ukraine in the small hours of Thursday.

As troops advanced, the Kremlin said it was certain that Russians would "support" the war and that Ukraine needed to be "liberated and cleansed of Nazis".

But with shocking scenes of death in Ukraine, many prominent figures publicly spoke out against the war on Thursday and thousands of ordinary Russians defied draconian anti-protest legislation to take to the streets across the country.

Several thousand people gathered near Pushkin Square in central Moscow, while up to 1,000 people gathered in the former imperial capital Saint Petersburg, according to AFP correspondents at the scene.

Rallies also took place in dozens of other Russian cities.

The invasion of Ukraine is taking place during an unprecedented crackdown on the Russian opposition, with most protest leaders assassinated, jailed or forced out of the country.

Jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who used to mobilise Russia's largest protests against Putin, is serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence in a penal colony outside Moscow.

OVD-Info, which tracks arrests at opposition rallies, said nearly 1,700 people were detained in 53 Russian cities. More than 900 were arrested in Moscow and over 400 in Saint Petersburg, the monitor said.

- 'I am in shock' -

In Moscow, protesters were seen massing around Pushkin Square chanting "No to war!"

The same slogan, "No to war" was spray-painted on the front gate of the Russian parliament's lower house.

"I am in shock. My relatives and loved ones live in Ukraine," Anastasia Nestulya, 23, said in Moscow.

"What can I tell them over the phone? You hang in there?"

She said people were afraid to protest.

In Saint Petersburg, many struck a similar note.

"I have a feeling that the authorities have gone mad," said Svetlana Volkova, 27. She also said few people were willing to protest in Russia.

"People have been fooled by propaganda."

As he was dragged away by three police officers, a young man shouted: "Who are you fighting with? Arrest Putin."

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You aren't counting all the people who object to Putin's war but are terrified of your FSB operators, so they are staying home for fear of being arrested, assassinated or disappeared.

Putin is now using a COVID justified mandate to prohibit any protests

The Russian government has responded by instructing its people to “refrain from unsanctioned protests” and warning that those who violate that order will be “arrested & brought to responsibility.” It’s citing the coronavirus pandemic as its justification for the crackdown.

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I've only watched one video so far, and it was a VICE NEWS guy that looked like he was doing a green screen clickbait story.

Is that what this is? Some fake news?

I've only watched one video so far, and it was a VICE NEWS guy that looked like he was doing a green screen clickbait story.

Is that what this is? Some fake news?

What if Biden did the same as Putin and instructed the Freedom Convoy truckers that their protest is outlawed and that those who violate that order will be “arrested & brought to responsibility” and used the "coronavirus pandemic" as his justification for the crackdown.

We'd all be shitting white hot roofing nails and demanding that he be arrested and impreached.

And rightfully so.

Are you for real, asshole. France, Germany, Britain, Australian, New Zealand have all done much worse against Covid protestors.

Ten bucks says an anonymous shill like you works for Big Pharm..

How many babies have you killed today? You got blood on your hands. Maybe you'll get hung for war crimes against humanity.

Sick fuck.

There are loads of other videos in this thread and way more if you look around.

You'd have to be totally delusional to say this is all fake and there are no protests happening in Russia and around the world against the Ukraine invasion.

No time for GoFundMe for these protestors. This is what an actual dictatorship looks like. Putin is not a funny meme, he is a dangerous authoritarian.

This guy looks worse than the weather channel.
Tell me this doesn't look like he's performing in front of a green screen. [link to twitter.com (secure)]

2,800 protestors in Paris:

https://twitter.com/_/status/1496962368437432323

https://twitter.com/_/status/1496953587108556801

https://twitter.com/_/status/1496951138888962049

Did you look at any of the other dozens of protest videos posted in the thread from various cities around the world?

Is that what you want? A police state with no First Amendment rights to peaceful protesting or opinions that are critical to the government so you can send out jackboots to beat people, arrest them and disappear them?

I watched another and it looked like people gathered on a street at night. I didn't see like an organized march or gathering with signs and anything so far that could readily suggest a big rally and I don't speak Russian.

But, I can say that the US media already had canned interviews of boohoo people in the Ukraine supposedly who spoke perfect English for the microphones saying what the US would want played on news channels. I guess.