'Right now, we are being treated worse than animals. Participants in the march posted videos on X showing people, mainly women, marching and decrying alleged brutal police beatings of their sons.īefore her own arrest, Baloch said many youths had been arrested and many had been injured by tear gas and violence. 'I have been arrested along with several women and men by Islamabad police, but remember fascist state, we will defeat you.'

The march 'is under attack by the Islamabad police,' Baloch said on X. The woman who led the march, Mahrang Baloch, said on X, formerly Twitter, that she was taken into custody along with other protesters, while several protesters were reportedly injured by police as the protest was dispersed and people were rounded up and placed into transport vehicles. Police in Islamabad used force to disperse a protest by Baluchis in the early hours of December 21 after the protesters marched hundreds of kilometers to draw attention to excessive arrests of Baluchi men and their mistreatment by police. 'Circumstances require us to take decisive and immediate action,' Putin said, and that Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine's Donbas region had asked for assistance. Ukraine has not indicated it is seeking nuclear weapons. In a nationally televised speech early on February 24, Putin sought to justify the offensive operation by claiming that he had to stop Ukraine from acquiring nuclear weapons. He added that Hungary was 'prepared to care for them and will be able to meet this challenge quickly and effectively.' Orban, whose anti-migrant policies have put him at odds with the EU, also said that the number of Ukrainian refugees approaching Hungary's borders was likely to grow. 'Together with our European Union and NATO allies, we condemn Russia's military action,' he said in a video on Facebook. Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, who has in the past pursued close ties with Putin, also criticized Russia's move against its smaller neighbor. 'The European Union will respond in the strongest possible ways.(EU leaders) will adopt a stronger package, the harshest package of sanctions we have ever implemented,' he told reporters in Brussels. In Dark Remarks On Ukraine, Putin Telegraphed A Trajectory Toward War

Videos posted to social media showed explosions in several cities as Russia launched its attack of Ukraine. WATCH: Russian missiles and air strikes targeted Ukrainian military positions and infrastructure across the country. He said Moscow had launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine, with missile attacks targeting 'our military infrastructure' and border guards in several cities. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson - declared martial law, but he urged citizens to remain calm amid the Russian assault. NATO ambassadors said in a statement after emergency talks on February 24 that 'we have increased the readiness of our forces to respond to all contingencies.' NATO ambassadors said the alliance had agreed to beef up its land, sea, and air forces on its eastern flank near Ukraine and Russia after Putin ordered the attack on Ukraine. The attack prompted outrage and denunciations from the West and elsewhere as fears grew of a major war in the middle of Europe. The attack began in the early hours of February 24, with explosions and sirens being heard in the capital, Kyiv, and at its Boryspil airport, and witnesses reporting missile blasts in many other cities, including Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Dnipro, Mariupol, Odesa, and Zaporizhzhya. Zelenskiy spoke in a televised address on February 24 shortly after Russian missiles had targeted air bases and military infrastructure in at least 25 cities after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a 'special' operation to 'demilitarize' its neighbor and rival. For all of RFE/RL's coverage of the war in Ukraine, click here. RFE/RL's Live Briefinggives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion, Kyiv's counteroffensive, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians.

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