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detained across russia for protesting president putin s partial mobilization of reservists to reinforce his troops fighting in ukraine. also a sharp rise in the demand for flights out of moscow. prices have doubled and tripled for one way fares, direct flights to places that do not require russian visas are sold out through friday at least. joining us now with this new reporting on russia s internal military strife, katy bowe, this is fascinating what you revealed from your sources. tell us about this division inside the russian military. yeah. so over the last ten days we have seen the ukrainians exceed all expectations with the counter offensive and put the russians on the defense in the northeast and south. there hasn t been a lot that russia has been able to do to counter these ukrainian advances. and part of the reason, my sources are telling me, is that the russian military is really divided internally over what the strategy should be here to push back on ukra ....
The russians have introduced is was always going to be deeply unpopular, because it means that people who hadn t already volunteered to go and fight on the front lines in ukraine are now effectively going to be forced to get into uniform, pick up a gun, after a bit of training we don t know how much, go and fight that war. of course, it forces people who had been sort of like, you know had gone along with the whole idea of this special military operation because it didn t touch them, it was just on the television screens. it forces families across russia to confront it, become very real for them. the monitors we ve been speaking to who monitor protests in the country are saying more than 1,300 people arrested, 51% of that number we re told are women and minors. so it implies the wives and the mothers and the sisters and the children of these people sent off to fight are coming out on the streets as well as the ....