we do apologise. we did have some technical difficulties trying to get across to our translator. we will attempt a little bit later to once againjoin the former attempt a little bit later to once again join the former prime ministers of ukraine to continue that conversation. let s talk about the situation in russia. russian police have again moved to break up anti war protests in many cities. three and a half thousand people have been arrested in protests across russia according to the russian news agency tass. that includes 1,700 in moscow and 750 in st petersberg. maria kuznetsova, spokesperson for the 0vd info monitoring group, said the screws are being fully tightened essentially we are witnessing military censorship. and she added they were seeing big protests today even in siberian cities.
monitoring group, by 3pm moscow time, nearly 1,800 demonstrators had been arrested in mt cities. more than 300 people were detained in moscow. maria kuznetsova, spokesperson for the 0vd info monitoring group, said, the screws are being fully tightened essentially we are witnessing military censorship. and she added they were seeing big protests today even in siberian cities. the uk chief of the defence staff says the uk and allies have to be very cautious about russia s threats. admiral sir tony radakin stressed that the uk is part of the world s largest military alliance, nato, and has a nuclear deterrent. speaking to the bbc s sophie raworth, he explained why he thought the russian military convoy headed towards ukraine s capital kyiv had stalled.
<p>A team of historians and Jewish and Russian Studies scholars introduce a project to examine the more recent history of Jews in the former Soviet Union. </p>
Russian police have detained nearly 14,000 people for demonstrations against Putin s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine since 24 February, with nearly 300 arrested in Moscow protests today.