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Elderly woman who survived Nazi Germany is detained in Russian anti-war protest
An elderly woman who took part in an anti-war protest in St Petersburg to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been arrested.
Yelena Osipova, a well-known activist and artist who survived the Nazi Germany’s Siege of Leningrad as a baby, was at the protest site in St Petersburg on Wednesday holding two anti-war placards that urged soldiers to lay down their arms.
The Russian authorities detained her as the crowd chanted anti-war slogans around them.
Thousands of people have reportedly been detained so far.
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