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EPA Riot police at a demonstration in Moscow on SundayEPA
Riot police at a demonstration in Moscow on Sunday

More than 4,300 people were detained at anti-war protests across Russia on Sunday, rights groups and Russian authorities say.

Some 1,700 people were detained in Moscow alone, Ria news agency reports, citing the interior ministry.

The OVD-Info rights group says detentions took place in 53 cities.

Although protests have become increasingly restricted in recent years, numerous rallies have taken place across Russia since the invasion.

In the last 11 days, more than 10,000 people have been detained at protests, OVD-Info says.

"The screws are being fully tightened - essentially we are witnessing military censorship," Maria Kuznetsova, OVD-Info's spokeswoman, told Reuters news agency from Tbilisi in Georgia.

"We are seeing rather big protests today - even in Siberian cities, where we only rarely saw such numbers of arrests."

EPA A policeman by a bus of detained protesters in St PetersburgEPA
A policeman by a bus of detained protesters in St Petersburg
EPA A woman being led away in MoscowEPA
A woman being led away in Moscow
EPA Hundreds were arrested in St PetersburgEPA
Hundreds were detained in St Petersburg

Earlier this week, government critic Alexei Navalny - who is in jail on fraud charges - called for daily demonstrations against the invasion, saying Russia should not be a "nation of frightened cowards".

However, a number of new laws have made it harder to protest in Russia in recent years, rights groups say.

"Although Russian legislation avoids explicitly using terms like 'permit' or 'ban'... it effectively requires organisers to seek authorisation for their assemblies," Amnesty International says.

According to Russian human rights group OVD-Info - which was set up in 2011 - more than 2,500 people were detained across Russia on Sunday.

Watch: Anti-war protesters arrested and beaten in Yekaterinburg, Russia

It publishes the names and locations of those arrested, as well as total figures.

"Each police department may have more detainees than published lists," it says. "We publish only the names of those people about whom we know for certain and whose names we can publish."

Reuters Protesters in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in front of a Lenin statueReuters
Protesters in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in front of a Lenin statue
EPA Thousands of people protested against the invasion in Brussels on SundayEPA
Thousands of people protested against the invasion in Brussels on Sunday

Protests did not just take place in Russia on Sunday, but around the world. In Kazakhstan - an ally of Moscow - a peace rally was permitted in Almaty, attended by around 2,000 people.

Anti-war protesters also took to the streets in cities like Brussels, in Belgium, and London.

In Ukraine itself, Russian troops occupying the southern city of Nova-Kakhovka opened fire to try to disperse demonstrators.

A video from the city, in the Kherson region, shows protesters calling for the Russians to "go home" amid the sound of gunfire and stun grenades. The demonstrators appear to hold their ground.

One report said five people had been injured.

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