Posted on 09/21/2022 7:35:57 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Police wearing blacked-out helmets are dragging anti-mobilisation protestors off the streets of Russia tonight, as thousands come out to demonstrate against being sent to the front lines in Ukraine.
More than 1,000 people have been arrested tonight in 37 cities across Russia, including Moscow and St Petersburg, as they voiced their anger at President Vladimir Putin's order to mobilise 300,000 reservists.
There have been angry clashes between activists and security forces, with protestors being forcefully taken to the ground and removed from the streets as the government cracks down on vocal dissent.
Demonstrators tonight chanted anti-war slogans, with some calling for Putin himself to go to the trenches in Ukraine, while other's have angrily proclaimed they're not willing to die for him.
It is reported a total of 828 arrests have been made so far, with this number likely to rise throughout the night as the government cracks down on vocal dissent.
In the capital Moscow 303 people have been arrested, while the former imperial capital of St Petersburg saw 279 taken into custody, and 40 more have been arrested in Yekaterinburg, a city east of the Ural Mountains.
As protests spread, many men of fighting age opted to try and leave the country, driven by fears the border might soon be closed, with tickets for one-way flights out of Moscow being snapped up by worried Russians.
The decision to mobilise the country is the first of its type in the country since the Second World War, and has come as Russian forces sustain humiliating losses to advancing Ukrainian troops in the east of the country.
The first protests against the partial mobilisation took place in Siberia, with demonstrators risking being jailed under draconian laws forbidding criticism of the armed forces.
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Contrary to you propaganda ridden non-educated knuckleheads, Putin is quite popular and is supported by the majority of Russians while the vast majority of Russia increasingly grows to see the West as utter F-ing cancer.
What is the endgame for you Putin apologists?
I am more judgemental about these Russians in Moscow and St. Petersburg protesting.
They didn’t come to the streets when they learned Russia is killing and torturing Ukrainians and stealing their children.
They only came when they saw the risk of themselves being sent into the meat grinder instead of the poor country pumpkins, whom they despise.
Idiots!
We’re alREADY in Siberia!
And this is why we don’t teach math in school any more.
Right on..!
Where is FEMEN? We like....
BRING ON THE FEMEN-BOTS!
I wonder if the protesters are going to run off to Canada...
Pffft, wake me up when these paid protestors match the size and duration of the Yellow Jacket protestors of Frwance
“The first protests against the partial mobilisation took place in Siberia”
That would make sense. What’ll they do to punish them, send them to Siberia?
“I wonder if the protesters are going to run off to Canada...”
The Baltic Countries told the Russian protesters they’re not welcome in their countries - interesting, to say the least!
Fixed by immediate induction of all arrested into the RGF.
I wish the USA would use the same technique on BLM and Antifa protesters/rioters. Lock them up using whatever force is necessary and then let them rot in jail.
Boris!
Them danged protesters are bustin’ out all over!
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