The pictures show children of school age in the back of a police van in Moscow after taking part in anti-war protests.

The kids were held when they reportedly went to lay flowers at the city's Ukrainian embassy.

A girl wearing a green hat holds a sign saying 'No War' in Russian with small Russian and Ukrainian flags painted around the words.

Another girl in a pink puffer jacket carries flowers and she was pictured later in a police station, with an officer behind her at a computer.

The pictures were shared by Ilya Yashin on Twitter, who wrote: “Nothing out of the ordinary: just kids in paddy wagons behind an anti-war poster.

“This is Putin's Russia, folks. You live here.”

Despite Putin’s ruthless quashing of any dissent against his regime, thousands of anti-war protesters have taken to the streets across Russia.

Nearly 1 million people signed an online petition demanding an end to the war.

Anti-war demonstrators in Russia have faced mass detentions while authorities have restricted access to social media and threatened to shut down independent news sites.

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On Monday, the OVD-Info rights group that tracks political arrests counted at least 350 detentions of protesters in 13 Russian cities.

Over the past five days of protests, more than 6,000 people been detained, according to OVD-Info.

One demonstrator scrawled ‘Adolf Putin’ on the wall of an underground station in Saint Petersburg, the Russian President's hometown.

Among the high-profile Russian critics of Putin's war is the daughter of Chelsea's owner Roman Abramovich.

Sofia Abramovich, 27, posted an Instagram picture that read: "Putin wants a war with Ukraine," crossing out the word Russia.

"The biggest and most successful lie of Kremlin's propaganda is that most Russian stand with Putin [sic]," the post went on.

In an effort to stifle critical voices, Russian authorities have restricted access to Facebook, which has played an important role in amplifying dissent.

Internet users also reported problems with accessing Twitter.

Russian officials have also pressured the media to cover the invasion in strict accordance with the official line.

They have also bemoaned the reports that described Russia's attack on Ukraine as an invasion or a war as untrue.

Meanwhile, in a poignant show of global unity against Moscow to protest against the war, diplomats walked out at a United Nations meeting in Geneva during a speech by Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov.

Dozens of officials, including those from Britain, the US and the EU left the 49th session of the Human Rights Council.

Meanwhile, The Hague is investigating Russia for “war crimes and crimes against humanity” after they cluster-bombed a nursery school.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/4802468/primary-school-kids-arrested-russia/

They should be awarded nobel peace prize

Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate and deny us. If we don't assert our truth, it may again be relegated to fantasy. But the truth won't go away. It will keep surfacing until it is recognized. Truth will outlast any campaigns mounted against it, no matter how mighty, clever, or long. It is invincible. It's only a matter of which generation is willing to face it and, in so doing, protect future generations from abuse.

Why should kids protest? What do they know about war? Tueh on the whites running useless propaganda.

from kids getting arrested for Ukraine to beauty queens carrying fake assault rifles for Ukraine. Both sides are just lying

These are the future of a new Russia...

donbachi:
They should be awarded nobel peace prize

Kids knows nothing about war. If indeed that news is true then their parents should be arrested. Kids should be avoided in matters related to war.

dawnomike:
These are the future of a new Russia...

What makes you think they are Russians? How did the west come about the news? These people runs propaganda with everything. They are not even sane enough to avoid using kids in their stupid games.

Their parents are stupid, did they even consider the safety of those children before using them....

Believe, Russia is waiting for their parents to arrest them.

yorubarere:

Kids knows nothing about war. If indeed that news is true then their parents should be arrested. Kids should be avoided in matters related to war.

but,bullets,bombs and missiles knows them..same kids that will suffer kwashiokwor if the war does not end anytime and both nations runs out of food.

tamdun:
Their parents are stupid, did they even consider the safety of those children before using them....

If only they knew Putin is fighting a just cause and only trying to protect them from future attack with his current tough actions against Ukraine and the west. If Russia should allow NATO surround her, these kids here will all die in their thousands in the eventuality of an attack. Russia is a super power and won’t allow the enemy spread it tentacles around her. The west is just hypocritical here.

They even locked them up
I carry yansh up for western propaganda.