Hundreds of demonstrators marched in Dnipropetrovsk on September 21 to protest against the separatist conflict in the country's east. Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine's third-largest city, is within close reach of the regions controlled by pro-Russian separatists. The demonstration took place as other major peace protests were under way in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and elsewhere in Russia and Ukraine. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
"I demand Russian troops leave Ukraine! -- Russian citizen"
Our Moscow correspondent, Tom Balmforth, who is on the scene, speaks to Daria Nikolaeva, a 55-year old Russian teacher.
"I'm not only against us sending our troops to Ukraine," she says. "I'm against us interfering whatsoever in the matters of other sovereign states. Crimea set a precedent."
The antiwar demonstration was organized by liberal parties, but there appears to be some participation by Russian nationalists.
A good long-read about the split in the Russian far-right over Ukraine here.
Photojournalist Evgeny Feldman reports from Moscow: "From one side of the police line protesters shout 'Putin theif!' From the other, 'Crimea is ours.'"
A reminder that our Russian Service is offering live video coverage of the antiwar march in Moscow, which is officially beginning now.
As several thousand gather in Moscow's Pushkin Square for an antiwar demonstration, pro-Russian separatists have also been active today. A hashtag for the march (#маршмира) has been flooded with pornographic images and a number of people holding the flags of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk republics have been spotted at the rally.
A large banner featuring opposition activists has been hung from the square, apparently by pro-Kremlin activists. It reads, "March of the traitors."
And "Novorossiya" flags have been hung along the route of the march.