Fri Feb 25, 2022 – 10:07 am ESTFri Feb 25, 2022 – 10:33 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Anti-war protesters packed the streets of major Russian cities Thursday, expressing vehement opposition to President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine.
Reports indicate that demonstrators have numbered in the thousands, with large protests cropping up in dozens of cities throughout the eastern European nation.
Videos shared widely on social media show many cities, including the nation’s capital of Moscow, jammed with Russian citizens publicly taking a stand against their government’s assault on Ukraine at great personal risk.
Huge anti-war protest happening in Moscow, the capital of Russia:
Russian citizens rejecting the Ukraine invasion pic.twitter.com/Cx6GADwlPy
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) February 24, 2022
Video footage captured yesterday shows the main street of the historic city of St. Petersburg filled with protesters chanting “No War!” and “Ukraine is not our enemy!”
The protests follow an emotional plea by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urging the Russian people to oppose their government’s aggression against Ukraine.
The demonstrations also come in defiance of Putin’s threats that Russian citizens who engage in protests against the conflict will be arrested.
The main street in
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