More than 200 people have been arrested at demonstrations across Russia against President Vladimir Putin’s announcement earlier of a partial mobilisation of civilians to fight in Ukraine, a police monitoring group said Wednesday.

AFP journalists in the centre of the Russian capital said police wearing anti-riot gear were detaining protesters, while the OVD-Info monitoring group said at least 260 people were detained at rallies in 20 different cities.

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