\n Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny urged Russians to stage daily protests against Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, saying the country should not be a \"nation of frightened cowards\" and calling Vladimir Putin \"an insane little tsar.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n \"I am urging everyone to take to the streets and fight for peace,\" he said in a statement posted on Facebook, calling on Russians not to be afraid of going to prison.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"If, to prevent war, we need to fill up the jails and police vans, we will fill up the jails and police vans.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Everything has a price and now, in the spring of 2022, we should pay that price.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n The 45-year-old, who led the biggest protests in Russia against Putin in recent years and survived a poisoning with Novichok nerve agent in 2020, is now serving a prison sentence on old fraud charges outside Moscow.\n<\/p>\n
\n Thousands of Russians have taken to the streets to protest the invasion, and more than 6,800 demonstrators have been arrested, according to OVD-Info, an independent monitor.\n<\/p>\n
\n Navalny urged the people of Russia and Belarus -- which allowed Russian troops passage to attack Ukraine -- to demonstrate in main squares at 7:00 pm every weekday and at 2:00 pm on weekends and during holidays.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"You cannot wait another day,\" he said, adding that Russia should not become a \"nation of frightened cowards\" who are pretending not to see an \"aggressive war unleashed by our clearly insane little tsar.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n Putin last Thursday ordered troops to invade pro-Western Ukraine to \"de-militarise\" and \"denazify\" the country.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ukraine says more than 350 civilians, including 14 children, have been killed in the conflict and the International Criminal Court has opened a war crimes investigation against Russia.\n<\/p>\n
\n Putin invaded Ukraine amid a historic crackdown on opposition at home, with Navalny's political organisations banned.\n<\/p>\n
\n Navalny accused Putin of using \"pseudo-historic nonsense\" to justify the invasion of Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"I cannot, do not want and will not remain silent, watching how pseudo-historical nonsense about the events from 100 years ago has become an excuse for Russians to kill Ukrainians, and those, defending themselves, kill Russians,\" he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Putin is not Russia.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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