HUNDREDS OF RUSSIANS DEMONSTRATE IN MOSCOW AGAINST PUTIN'S WAR IN UKRAINE, CHANTING "PUTIN IS HITLER."

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Russians around the country took to the streets just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his soldiers into Ukraine.

On Thursday evening, around 1,000 demonstrators gathered in the heart of Moscow, screaming "No to War!" while passing motorists honked their horns.

At around 7 p.m. local time, protesters came to the streets in many other cities, including St. Petersburg near the renowned Gostiny Dvor retail arcade (16:00 GMT). The mood was tense, with a few people crying against a backdrop of heavily armed cops.

The Associated Press reported that 1,745 people were held in 54 Russian locations, with at least 957 of them in Moscow.

Hundreds more comments poured in, criticising Moscow's most forceful moves since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The attack was described by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "special military operation" to protect people in eastern Ukraine from "genocide," a bogus assertion that the US had predicted would be used as a justification for invasion and was roundly rejected by many Russians.

As sirens blared in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, and enormous explosions were heard there and elsewhere, Russians signed open letters and online petitions asking that the Kremlin stop the attack, which the Ukrainian health minister said had killed at least 57 Ukrainians and injured many more.

Despite a warning from Russia's Investigative Committee on Thursday afternoon reminding Russians that unauthorised protests are illegal, demonstrators took to the streets across the country.

WORLDWIDE ANTI-WAR PROTESTS

On Thursday, protestors from Tokyo to Tel Aviv and New York gathered in public squares and outside Russian embassies around the world to criticise Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Hundreds of people gathered in Bern, Switzerland, brandishing Ukrainian flags and chanting "Peace for Ukraine!"

A tiny demonstration outside the U.N. European offices in Geneva, organised by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), denounced Putin's threat to deploy nuclear weapons.

There were also protests in Beirut, Tel Aviv, Dublin, and Prague.

According to the OVD-Info rights monitor, police had detained 1,667 people in 53 cities across Russia by 19:39 GMT on Thursday. According to the Tass news agency, 600 people were arrested in Moscow alone.

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