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Russians arrested after holding protests, laying flowers on Ukraine war anniversary

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Russians in Moscow and other cities brought flowers to Ukrainian poets and held one-person pickets with antiwar slogans Friday to mark the first anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Russian media and civil rights groups reported at least a dozen detentions, part of the Kremlin’s sweeping crackdown on dissent that has spiked to unprecedented levels since the start of the war.

At least eight people were detained in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city, according to OVD-Info, a legal aid group that tracks political arrests.

They all had brought flowers to the city’s monument to victims of political repression, the group said. Read more: U.N. isolates Russia, calls for ‘lasting peace’ amid anniversary of war on Ukraine Read next: Part of the Sun breaks free and forms a strange vortex, baffling scientists Online news outlet Sota filmed at least seven people getting detained in St.

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