Opposition to Vladimir Putin’s spluttering invasion of Ukraine and mobilisation order is continuing to grow in Russia, as families flee to Georgia and mass anti-war protests break out across the country amid mounting fears that one million men will be conscripted.
Putin’s escalation of his wicked and barbaric war has sparked an exodus, with men, women and children seen pulling luggage beside cars with Russian licence plates parked at the Georgian side of the Verkhni Lars customs checkpoint some 125 miles outside Tbilisi.
Brave women in the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala, one of Russia’s poorest regions, held placards and shouted ‘no to war’ as they faced down the Kremlin’s shock troops at a large anti-war demo today – even as riot police fired warning shots into the air to frighten them.
And now even the Russian dictator’s allies are blaming the regime’s cack-handed handling of the failed invasion, brutal clampdown on civil liberties since February 24 and forcible conscription of…
