In a rare public display of dissent, Leonid Vasyukevich said of Russia s invasion of Ukraine, "young people who could bring great benefit to our country die and become disabled."
Anti-war sentiment continues to grow inside Russia, as the death toll rises among soldiers from some of Russia's most ethnically marginalised and poorest peoples, reports Dick Nichols.
The Russian Communist Party in far-eastern Primorsky Krai on Wednesday expelled two regional lawmakers for calling for an end to the war in Ukraine. | Pulse Nigeria
Russian Communist Party member Leonid Vasyukevich shocked a Russian assembly after demanding the immediate withdrawal of military forces in Ukraine, denouncing the invasion and risking prison time.