Putin critics lead march in Berlin calling for end to war in Ukraine

Yulia Navalnaya and other Russian opposition figures staged a protest in Berlin (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Prominent Russian opposition figures have led a march of at least 1,000 people in central Berlin, criticising Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine and calling for democracy in Russia.

Behind a banner that read “No Putin, No War”, the protesters were led by Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of top Putin critic Alexei Navalny, as well as Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza, who were freed from Russian detention in a high-profile prisoner exchange this summer.