‘No to war!’ Russian protester dragged screaming from Moscow rally

Russia: Police arrest protesters as crowd chants 'no to war'

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The protester chanted “no to war” as he was dragged on a crowded street in Moscow. On Wednesday Putin ordered Moscow’s first wartime mobilisation since World War Two, with plans to immediately start conscripting some 300,000 troops to fight on the frontline.

He cast the Ukraine invasion, that began in February and has left thousands dead, displaced millions and reduced towns to rubble, as a defining East-West clash Russia’s mobilisation may be the riskiest domestic political move of Putin’s two decades in power, and followed months of Kremlin promises it would do no such thing and comes at a time when Russia has been facing a string of battlefield failures.

Concern over being conscripted saw flights out of Russia quickly sell out, and jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny called for mass demonstrations against the mobilisation.

Independent protest monitoring group OVD-Info said nearly 1,400 people in 38 Russian cities had been detained in protests by Wednesday evening.

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