By Jeva Lange The Week

Demonstrations broke out across Russia on Thursday evening as citizens protested President Vladmir Putin’s ongoing attack on Ukraine. Police, apparently anticipating the unrest, “moved swiftly to stifle any dissent at home,” The Daily Beast reports, including preemptively arresting known activists before they even reached the protests.

In St. Petersburg, protesters marched against the war, risking arrest:

In Moscow, protesters chanted “no war” even as police scrambled to close Pushkin Square: