How desperate can the Kremlin strongman be, Vladimir Putin ordering Moscow authorities to arrest even elementary school children for participating in anti-war demonstrations?
The Nexta network "uploaded" a video on Twitter showing a child crying behind prison bars.
Meanwhile, a Russian opposition politician posted online photos of shame with lilliputian students sitting in police cages Her faces sullen. The children were arrested by authorities for taking part in demonstrations held in the Russian capital with thousands of citizens expressing their opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Anti-war protesters in Russia are at risk of jail and treason charges for expressing dissent against Putin's war.
But that has not stopped thousands of people taking to the streets as Russian forces approach Ukraine's capital, the British newspaper the Daily Mail comments.
The photos show three children who took part in yesterday's protests being detained by Moscow police.
The children are sitting in the back of the police van and waving flowers and banners with the slogan "no war."
According to reports, the students were with their mothers outside the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow to leave some flowers.
And then the authorities detained them.
Russian opposition politician Ilya Yasin is one of thousands of protesters who are defying Moscow's threats and marching to express their opposition to the war plans of their leader, Vladimir Putin.[BR]Almost 7.000 people have been arrested so far by Russian police in 50 cities across the country, according to "OVD-Info," an organization that documents the protests in the country.
One of the photos shows a girl waving a placard that reads "No war" in Russian, with small Russian and Ukrainian flags painted around the words. On the right, the two flags are accompanied by a small pink heart that reads "Russia plus Ukraine equals love."
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