Moscow, Feb 26, (dpa/GNA) – Russian police arrested at least 560 people at anti-war protests across 26 cities on Friday, the civil rights group OVD-Info said in an updated tally Saturday.
Lawyers for the organization were able to provide legal assistance to some of those arrested, the group said. In many cases, those arrested were fined or detained.
Horror over their country’s attack on Ukraine has driven many people in Russia to take to the streets in protest. More than 1,700 people protesting the war had been arrested on Thursday, the first day of fighting.
In Georgia, tens of thousands of people protested Friday evening.
In what local media said was one of the largest rallies in the Georgian capital Tbilisi for some time, demonstrators expressed their displeasure with the Georgian government, which has refused to join other countries in imposing sanctions against Russia.
Georgia itself suffered a military defeat at the hands of Russia in 2008, in a brief war over the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
GNA