Hundreds arrested as shocked Russians protest over Ukraine attack

Hundreds of posts came pouring in condemning Moscow’s most aggressive actions since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Police officers detain a demonstrator in St Petersburg (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP)

Shocked Russians turned out in their thousands to condemn their country’s invasion of Ukraine as emotional calls for protests grew on social media.

Some 1,702 people in 53 Russian cities were detained, at least 940 of them in Moscow.