Protests against the war and arrests of the demonstrators continue in Russia.
Russian authorities reportedly detained 559 people at nearly two dozen anti-war protests on Sunday.
OVD-Info, an independent human rights project focused on political persecution in Russia, reported the figures Sunday after protests formed in 21 cities, including in the port city of Vladivostok and the Siberian city of Irkutsk.
Elsewhere around the world sympathy marches were held in support of the Ukrainian people.
41,600 people demonstrated in 119 protests in towns and cities across France, according to interior ministry estimates. In Paris itself, some 16,000 turned out.
In Zurich, Switzerland, 40,000 people took part
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