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Ukrainian servicemen ride in a tank close to the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk, a facility which has been the site of intense fighting for several weeks.
Ukrainian servicemen ride in a tank close to the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk, a facility which has been the site of intense fighting for several weeks.

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13:55 21.9.2014

Supporters of pro-Russian separatists are also apparently gathering in Moscow's Pushkin Square, where the antiwar march is set to begin at 4PM Moscow time.

14:05 21.9.2014

The tweet on top, from pro-Putin media entrepreneur Konstantin Rykov, says "Patriots wait for Banderovtsi in Moscow." The tweet on the bottom, from Savik Shuster, a popular Ukrainian TV host, says, "fascists on Pushkin Square await peaceful demonstrators."

14:23 21.9.2014

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.

14:47 21.9.2014

14:58 21.9.2014

A reminder that our Russian Service is offering live video coverage of the antiwar march in Moscow, which is officially beginning now.

15:02 21.9.2014

Photojournalist Evgeny Feldman reports from Moscow: "From one side of the police line protesters shout 'Putin theif!' From the other, 'Crimea is ours.'"

15:07 21.9.2014

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.

15:08 21.9.2014

15:14 21.9.2014

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."

15:18 21.9.2014

"I demand Russian troops leave Ukraine! -- Russian citizen"

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