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A Russian human rights organisation says the authorities have arrested about 1,000 people for demonstrating against President Vladimir Putin's partial mobilisation of reservists to fight in Ukraine. OVD-info says the largest number of detentions took place in Moscow and St Petersburg but that there have been protests in more than thirty other cities.

Mr Putin ordered the mobilisation of 300,000 reservists and stressed that he would use "all available means" to protect Russian territory, implying this could involve nuclear weapons.

Professor Katarzyna Zysk is an expert in the Russian military at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. She told Newsday: 鈥淣ot that many believe that this will be a partial mobilisation鈥�There is nothing in the law that prohibits taking whomever they want鈥�It is harder and harder for ordinary Russians to look the other way.鈥�

(Picture: Police officers detain a woman in Moscow on September 21st 2022, following calls to protest against partial mobilisation announced by President Vladimir Putin. Credit: Alexander NEMENOV / AFP via Getty Images.)

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