A seven-year-old Russian man was arrested during a demonstration against the war in Ukraine, in St. Petersburg (Northwestern Russia).
The arrest video, which currently has more than 5 million views on Twitter, shows police walking towards her and taking her with them.
Famous blockade Elena Osipova was arrested in St. Petersburg. pic.twitter.com/hZBvbH5AWJ
– LADY WITH PEREGAR (@aperegarom) March 2, 2022
Protester Elena Osipova is 76 years old. She survived the siege of Leningrad during World War II. During this time, the Nazis had besieged St. Petersburg, then called Leningrad, for two and a half years. The siege ended in Soviet victory, at the cost of many casualties.
Russia has invaded Ukraine since February 24. While Kyiv is regularly bombed, more than 660,000 Ukrainians have already fled the country, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In Russia, hundreds of people took to the streets of Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities to condemn the war waged by Vladimir Putin.