Russian activists sign open letter calling for end to war in Ukraine
by Andrew Roth from World news | The Guardian on (#5XG7F)
Campaigners write manifesto in broadest anti-war statement by Russian human rights supporters
A group of veteran Russian human rights activists plan to publish an open letter calling on Russia to end its war in Ukraine, declaring it our common duty" to stop the war [and] protect the lives, rights and freedoms of all people, both Ukrainians and Russians".
The manifesto", signed by 11 prominent activists including Lev Ponomaryov, Oleg Orlov and Svetlana Gannushkina, announces the creation of a new anti-war council of Russian human rights defenders and is the broadest collective statement against the war by Russian human rights supporters to date.
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