Pictures of a bunch of kids who have been reportedly detained by police in Moscow for protesting Russia's invasion of Ukraine have sparked outrage on social media.

The photographs have been shared on Fb by Alexandra Arkhipova, who stated two girls—Ekaterina Zavizion and her good friend Olga Alter—had gone to position flowers exterior the Ukrainian Embassy with their 5 kids, all aged between 7 and 11, on Tuesday.

The youngsters had made indicators and gone with their moms, wrote Arkhipova, an affiliate professor on the Russian State College for the Humanities.

Pictures of the youngsters, evidently in police custody, present they'd made indicators bearing a Russian phrase that interprets to "No to battle."

"All of them have been detained by police, and the police have been preserving them first in a police van, after which introduced them to the 'Presnenskoye' police station," she wrote.

"Telephones have been taken away from dad and mom (or shall be quickly), and the policemen are shouting on the dad and mom threatening these courageous mothers and their kids."

She stated additionally they confronted threats that their kids can be positioned in care and they'd be disadvantaged of their parental rights.

Arkhipova additionally shared a video exhibiting one of many kids talking via tears whereas in custody. In an replace, she wrote the youngsters and their moms had been launched from custody after a lawyer arrived, however must seem in court docket.

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"Thanks all to your sympathy and assist. Subsequent is court docket, fines, threats," she wrote. "We are going to battle and maintain you knowledgeable."

It's unclear how these footage have been obtained. Arkhipova has been contacted for added remark.

However the photographs have circulated broadly on social media, together with on Twitter and Telegram.

They have been shared on Twitter by Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who wrote: "Nothing out of the peculiar: simply children in paddy wagons behind an anti-war poster. That is Putin's Russia, people. You reside right here."

Anna Veduta, a former spokeswoman for jailed Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny, wrote in a tweet: "I will not relax. They're already detaining kids. Individuals in Russia, what else do you have to get up? For the second coming to occur and Christ personally crucified by Putin? Get up, that is fascism!!! He kills Ukrainian kids and throws Russian ones behind bars. So what else must occur? See clearly!"

Kevin Rothrock, editor of the English-language model of the information web site Meduza, wrote: "These children' indicators say 'NO TO WAR.' On Tuesday, cops in Moscow detained them with their moms after they tried to position flowers exterior the Ukrainian embassy. Officers allegedly threatened to have little one providers' take away their children completely. WHAT THE F**Ok."

Author and investigator Natalia Antonova wrote: "Youngsters detained for bringing flowers and indicators to the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow with their mothers... I do know I should not be shocked, however goddamn you, Putin and all who serve you."

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A bunch of kids have been detained by police in Moscow after they went with their moms to position flowers on the Ukrainian embassy, in response to a number of reviews.Alexandra Arkhipova/Fb

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