On Sunday, 2,636 protesters were detained in 51 Russian cities for protesting President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The outpouring of Russian civilians denouncing their government’s war on the neighboring nation has been ongoing since Feb. 24.
During the Feb. 27 round-up, police detained 1,223 dissidents in Moscow and at least 976 in St. Petersburg, according to the independent human rights organization OVD-Info.
