In Russia first resistance stirs after the attack on Ukraine. at Anti-war protests in central Moscow the police arrested several people, as the RIA news agency reported on Thursday. Police cordoned off Pushkin Square, a Reuters reporter reported. Previously was the Opposition figure Marina Litvinovich arrested been confirmed to the Reuters news agency. “I was arrested on my way home,” she wrote on Telegram.
Litvinovich, who lives in Moscow, had previously called on her compatriots to protest against the attack. “Today at 7 p.m. in the centers of our cities. Russians are against war!” she wrote in a Facebook post. “We will clean up this mess in the years to come. Not just us. But also our children and grandchildren.”
Criticism of the attack ordered by President Vladimir Putin has also come from the Fridays for Future movement in Russia. “In a situation where the world is suffering from climate, environmental and other crises, war will only exacerbate these crises but will not solve them,” the activists wrote on Twitter. “In our time, all conflicts must be solved through diplomacy and not through the blood of civilians in other countries.” They pledged “our solidarity and support” to the Ukrainian comrades-in-arms.