More than 1,300 people stopped by the Russian police in protests against the "partial mobilization" ordered yesterday by Russian President Vladimir Putin for the war in Ukraine: the NGO Ovd-Info reports, specifying that at the moment it has news of 1,307 people arrested in 39 cities of Russia.
The city with the most arrests is Moscow, where the police dragged 527 people into their vans.
In St. Petersburg there are 480 detentions.
The leaders of the Azov battalion who for weeks defended the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol - Commander Denis Prokopenko "Redis" and his deputy Svyatoslav Palamar "Kalina", are among the prisoners released by Russia.
This was announced by the commander of the Ukrainian special forces Sergey Velichko who posted a photo with Redis and Kalina on Telegram.
Ukrainska Pravda reports it.
In addition to Prokopenko and Palamar, the commander of the 36th Marine Brigade, Major Sergei Volyn, was also freed.
In the photo published with them also appear the head of the main intelligence directorate Kirill Budanov and the Minister of the Interior Denis Monastyrsky.
Former Azov commander Andrey Biletsky wrote on social media: "I just talked on the phone with Raditz, Kalina,
they all have a fighting spirit and are even eager to fight.
Another confirmation that Azov is made of steel.
Now the kids are already free, but in a third country.
They will stay there for a while, but the main thing has already happened: they are free and alive. ”In a photo published on the website of the official Ukrainian radio Suspline, Palamar is seen smiling while talking on the phone.
In the last 24 hours,
Russian bombings
have caused the death of 5 civilians in the Donetsk region: two in Kurakhove, one in Bakhmut, one in Avdiivka, one in Karlivk, 12 injured, exiled governor Pavlo Kyrylenko announced. , quoted by the Kyiv Independent.
Kyrylenko added that since February 24, the date of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 873 civilians have been killed in Donetsk oblast, excluding Mariupol and Volnovakha.
Meanwhile, the spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called
"indecent" the "false quote" by US President Joe Biden on the words of Vladimir Putin on the "nuclear threat"
.
Ria Novosti reports it.
"As for the speech of the President of the United States, I consider it absolutely indecent how it started - Zakharova says - The fact is that he would have started to" quote the president of Russia.
We, as always, have begun to double check Biden's words.
Biden said it for sure, but the president of Russia didn't say it. "