Hundreds of Russians, including girls as young as 14 years old, have been arrested while participating in the unsanctioned rallies, banned under Russian law, according to reports. OVD-Info said 724 people were detained across 32 different cities on Saturday, per BBC News.
The protests have taken place in cities including Moscow, St Petersburg, Tomsk, and Omsk, Sky News reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin escaped to his secret palace near Gelendzhik, close to the Black Sea coast, amid anti-draft protests in Russia, MailOnline was first to report.
According to independent journalist Farida Rusamova, who cited three sources familiar with Putin's schedule, the Russian president traveled to his vacation home on Wednesday.
He has been resting his "body and soul" there, Rusamova said in a Telegram post, enjoying the facilities of the palace, which Putin publicly denies belongs to him.
Source: Prestupnosti.net, quoting eyewitnesses; TASS
Quote: "We, the residents of Snihurivka, have gathered today to protest against an unlawful referendum being held in the town of Snihurivka and neighbouring villages. The region of Snihurivka has always been Ukrainian - it was and will be Ukraine. We have never wanted to join the Russian Federation and we never will want to. We are calling on residents of Snihurivka and neighbouring villages, meaning those in Snihurivka hromada [an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories - ed.], not to attend the "referendum" and not to take part in the unlawful running of this referendum. Glory to Ukraine!"
Previously, Russian propagandist media reported that the occupation "authorities" were planning to join the occupied areas of Mykolaiv Oblast to occupied Kherson Oblast.
Background:
On the morning of 23 September, Kremlin puppets in the occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts announced that "referendums" on joining Russia had begun.
Mykhailo Podoliak, advisor to the head of the President's Office, said that the sham referendums being held by Kremlin puppets in the occupied areas of Donbas, Kherson Oblast and Zaporizhzhia Oblast were "propaganda shows".
OLHA HLUSHCHENKO – SATURDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2022, 01:52
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said that he was "shocked" by Israel’s lack of aid for Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Source: President Zelenskyy in an interview with Ouest-France, quoted by Suspilne
Quote from Zelenskyy: "I am shocked and I do not understand [this]. Israel gave us nothing, nothing, zero…I understand that they have to defend their land, but I have received information that Israel is exporting its weapons to other countries."
"These are straight facts: there were discussions with the Israeli government, but they have not helped Ukraine. Why wouldn’t they give us air defence [equipment]?"
THE STAFF: WE WERE SHOCKED TO SEE THE LACK OF SUPPORT FROM ISRAEL AND FELT IT NEEDED TO BE PUT OUT THERE. THEY FIGHT FOR THEIR EXISTANCE AND YET WILL NOT HELP ANAOTHER COUNTRY THAT IS ALSO TRYING TO EXIST. THE SHAME IS ON ISRAEL AND IT SHOULD BE REMEMBERED IN THE FUTURE.
A team of investigators commissioned by the UN has concluded that Russia committed war crimes in Ukraine.
Among the crimes are torture and rape of children, some as young as four years old, the chair of a UN inquiry said.
It also found evidence of executions, indiscriminate rocket attacks, and forced deportation.
Russian soldiers have committed a long list of nightmarish war crimes in Ukraine, including torturing and raping children, some as young as four years old, a United Nations investigation found.
Erik Møse, who led an independent UN mission tasked with investigating human rights violations and crimes against humanity in Ukraine, presented a series of findings to the organization's Human Rights Council on Friday.
Gathering evidence from dozens of towns across Ukraine, interviewing victims, witnesses and authorities, and inspecting mass graves and sites of torture, Møse concluded that "war crimes have been committed in Ukraine."
Møse said the commission determined that Russian soldiers engaged in sexual and gender-based violence, including various other terrible human rights violations such as torture, sexual violence, and "cruel and inhuman treatment."
"There are examples of cases where relatives were forced to witness the crimes," Møse said. "In the cases we have investigated, the age of victims of sexual and gendered-based violence ranged from four to 82 years."
Putin is a liar as no one was at war with Russia or wanted to go to war with Russia until Putin Invaded Ukraine. At NO time has NATO sent troops or plans into Ukraine to repel the attack. Russian troops have raped women/children and murdered thousands for nothing. Putin is a world class liar and trying to destroy Ukraine to rebuild and take over freedom loving people. This is no different than what he has done before. He lies to the Russian people and hopes his lies will cause the peace loving people to die for nothing. Over 50,000 young Russian soldiers have did and for what?
Now this nut job is calling up hundreds of thousands people to die for him. Isn't it about time for the Army to say enough and remove him before he destroys your country and kills thousands more young and old soldiers. He is calling up old people to die for him and his belief in misguided glory.
If this doesn't end now, Russia will be destroyed not by NATO or the West as he claims, but by Putin himself. Haven't the Russian people learned he doesn't care about anyone or anything except himself? Should he use Nuclear as he always threats to do, the end will come sooner as India and China will cut him loose as they know that is the so-called RED LINE and no country will want anything to do with him or Russia. They will cease buying oil as others will make up the difference and Russia will go belly up because of the mad man.
It is time for the people of Russia and their Army to decide how they wish to live on this planet.
I use to respect Major but no longer as he has forgotten which party supporter started shooting republicans on a baseball field. Liberals are the ones who give protection to gangs, murders, and all types. Does anyone remember the "Summer of Love"? How did that work for Portland and other liberal goverened cities.
Here is a comment from the Major and he needs to get a grip on the truth. I have said it so many times before but yes, a civil war is coming and the fault lies with "We the People" as we are the dumb ass people voting people in who will allow it to happen. To stop it from coming, we MUST take back our government.
GARRETT: “We wanted to show people that what we’re talking about is just incremental steps from where we already are,” Garrett told the outlet. “I don’t think anyone reading that first chapter can honestly say, ‘Oh, that could never happen.’ They have to say, ‘Holy crap, we’re 85 percent there.’”
The civil war may not start till my time has passed but if this country does not change and people vote out the communists/socialist, we are done. My father warned me over 60 years ago this was coming and I didn't believe him but do now. I don't see how it can be avoided unless "We the People" vote out this government and all the swamp creatures.
Example how we have lost control. A few years ago it was learned our money was being used by different elected people to pay off pages or whoever they had molested or had unwanted sexual contact with. That story was buried so fast as the swamp took over to protect them. If that had happened at a private company people would have been fired, charged or worse. In government, this is just another day.
The 67-year-old joins a substantial roster of Russian bankers and oil and gas executives who have died under suspicious circumstances this year. Lukoil’s billionaire ex-manager Alexander Subbotin was found dead of an apparent heart attack in the home of a shaman in Mytishchi in May, according to Newsweek. Tass reported that voodoo rituals occurred at the home and that Subbotin was intoxicated when he died.
Leonid Shulman — an executive at Russia’s third-largest bank, Gazprombank — was found dead at his Leningrad cottage in January of an apparent suicide, according to the New York Post.
The next month, former Gazprombank executive Alexander Tyulyakov was found hanged in his St. Petersburg garage. Former vice president of Gazprombank, Vladislav Avayev, was found dead in April of a gunshot wound next to his wife and daughter at their Moscow home. Authorities said they suspected the incident was a murder-suicide.
One day later, Sergei Protosenya — the wealthy ex-manager of Russia’s second-largest gas producer, Novatek — was found hanged in a Spanish villa. His wife and daughter were found dead with stab wounds. Investigators theorized the incident a murder-suicide as well.
Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Maganov with the Order of Alexander Nevsky at the Kremlin in 2019, according to EuroNews. Maganov leaves behind a family, including his brother Nail Ulfatovich Maganov, who is the CEO of Tatneft — a sizable Russian oil producer.
