Posted on Feb 25, 2022
Hundreds are arrested as shocked Russians protest Ukraine attack
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Shocked Russians turned out by the thousands Thursday to decry their country's invasion of Ukraine as emotional calls for protests grew on social media. Some 1,745 people in 54 Russian cities were detained, at least 957 of them in Moscow.
Hundreds of posts came pouring in condemning Moscow's most aggressive actions since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Vladimir Putin called the attack a "special military operation" to protect civilians in eastern Ukraine from "genocide" — a false claim the U.S. had predicted would be a pretext for invasion, and which many Russians roundly rejected.
Tatyana Usmanova, an opposition activist in Moscow, wrote on Facebook that she thought she was dreaming when she awoke at 5:30 a.m. to the news, which she called "a disgrace that will be forever with us now."
Shocked Russians turned out by the thousands Thursday to decry their country's invasion of Ukraine as emotional calls for protests grew on social media. Some 1,745 people in 54 Russian cities were detained, at least 957 of them in Moscow.
Hundreds of posts came pouring in condemning Moscow's most aggressive actions since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Vladimir Putin called the attack a "special military operation" to protect civilians in eastern Ukraine from "genocide" — a false claim the U.S. had predicted would be a pretext for invasion, and which many Russians roundly rejected.
Tatyana Usmanova, an opposition activist in Moscow, wrote on Facebook that she thought she was dreaming when she awoke at 5:30 a.m. to the news, which she called "a disgrace that will be forever with us now."
Hundreds are arrested as shocked Russians protest Ukraine attack
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Those arrested will probably be stuck in some Gulag to rot until it's time for them to be tried shipmate PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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Also this photo is of Moscow from a recent attack during October 2025 from Ukraine which like many others targets in Russia itself took out 40% of the oil and 20% of Russian power power grids. at this point over one million Russian soldiers have be injured and 135,000 of them killed. Despite that Putin, and evil international criminal continues the aggress and could care less about even Russian soldiers being killed. Thousands of Russian troops also have surrendered to the Ukraine Military.
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