As Russian troops were closing in on the Ukrainian capital, more and more Russians at home were speaking out against the invasion even as the government’s official rhetoric grew increasingly harsher
Highlights
- At least 460 people in 34 cities were detained over anti-war protests on Saturday, including over 200 in Moscow.
- An online petition to stop the attack on Ukraine garnered over 780,000 signatures by Saturday evening.
- A prominent contemporary art museum in Moscow called Garage announced Saturday it was halting its work on exhibitions and postponing them “until the human and political tragedy that is unfolding in Ukraine has ceased" Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow may respond to Western sanctions by opting out of the last nuclear arms deal with the U.S., cutting diplomatic ties with Western nations and freezing their assets.
- He also warned that Moscow could restore the death penalty after Russia was removed from Europe’s top rights group.