More than 100 local deputies from 44 Russian cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg, signed an open letter "unreservedly" condemning the "special military operation" in Ukraine, which is an "unparalleled crime" that cannot be justified ". During anti-war demonstrations across Russia on Thursday, 1.705 people were arrested
There is no clean, surgically precise war or surgically precise military action, as claimed 23 years ago by the commanders of the NATO attack on FR Yugoslavia and as claimed now by the Russian Ministry of Defense, which announces that the Russian army destroyed 83 objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine, shot down one Ukrainian helicopter, two SU 27 and one SU 24 aircraft.
One of those two planes crashed into a residential part of Kyiv, an apartment block was badly damaged in the explosion, CNN and Euronews report. It is not announced how many people were injured or killed. The Russian "Novaya Gazeta", referring to the announcements of the Ukrainian side, writes that a cruise missile fell into the residential area. Two teachers were killed in Goraloka when a school was hit by a shell, according to the authorities in Donetsk, who claim that 1715 shells fell on them from the Ukrainian side during 139 shellings during the day. On the first day of the war, 157 people died, including 10 officers, "Novaya Gazeta" reports the data provided by the Ukrainian side.
Hundreds of thousands of people blocked roads in Kiev on Thursday with cars trying to flee the war to the west. One hundred thousand people were evacuated from Donbass to Russia. Thousands of people spent the night in subway shelters in Kyiv and Kharkiv, while sirens wailed at night, which must awaken in our reader nightmarish memories of Shisela (alert! danger!) and Smirela (past danger).
Voices against the war in Russia
More than 100 local deputies from different cities of Russia (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Veliky Novgorod, Samara, Ryazan, Yoshkar-Ola and others) signed an open letter addressed to the citizens of the Russian Federation in which they condemn the "special military operation" in Ukraine was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the morning of February 24.
Stop the war: Mass arrests during anti-war demonstrations in St. Petersburg / Photo: AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky
"We, the deputies elected by the people, unreservedly condemn the attack of the Russian army on Ukraine," the letter says. "This is an unprecedented crime that cannot be justified. Members of local parliaments believe that a war with Ukraine will lead to catastrophic consequences: thousands of people will die and be injured, and Russia will be isolated and prices will rise. At the end of the appeal, the MPs call on the people of Russia not to participate in the aggression, not to approve of it and not to remain silent.
The open letter was signed, in particular, by the Deputy of the City Duma of Veliky Novgorod Anna Cherepanova, Moscow Mundeps Elena Rusakova, Maksim Gongalsky, Andrey Morev, Elena Kotenochkina and Elena Filina and others.
According to "Nova Gazeta", which conveys the content of that anti-war appeal, 44 cities of Russia started demonstrations against the war in Moscow, during which more than 850 people were detained on Thursday. According to "Novaya Gazeta", the most massive actions so far were in Saint Petersburg. Referring to the portal OVD-Info, which the Russian Ministry of Justice registered as a "site of a foreign agent", the newspaper writes that throughout Russia, during anti-war actions, the police detained 1.705 people.
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