MOSCOW — Russian police have detained 4 individuals at an improvised memorial in Moscow for at the very least 45 individuals who have been killed by a Russian strike on a residential constructing in Ukraine’s Dnipro, a rights group stated Wednesday.
AFP journalists earlier this week noticed a handful of individuals laying flowers and youngsters’s toys at a statue of Ukrainian poetess Lesya Ukrainka within the Russian capital.
They additionally positioned {a photograph} of the hollowed-out constructing in Dnipro, struck on the weekend.
The OVD-Info rights group, which screens arrests in Russia, stated two individuals have been detained as they lay flowers on the statue.
“Two others who were nearby were also detained,” the group stated.
It stated it didn’t know their names, saying solely that one in every of them was a lady who got here together with her canine.
Ukraine has stated 20 extra persons are lacking in Dnipro following the weekend strike that ripped open the facet of residential constructing within the central Ukraine metropolis.
Russia has launched strict legal guidelines that successfully ban criticism of its offensive in Ukraine.
The Kremlin has denied placing residential areas in Ukraine. — Agence France-Presse
