One Russian's anti-war protest on the side of his shopping centre
Steve Rosenberg, Russko-Vysotskoye | 2 days ago
If you drive eight hours north of Moscow, you'll come to a tiny little town called Russko-Vysotskoye.There is not a great deal to see here, apart from the chicken farm and the church that was reduced to rubble in World War Two.
But there is one thing in this town that is particularly eye-catching: the local shopping centre.
Dmitry Skurikhin owns the building - and you should see what he's done to the front of it.
In giant letters he's painted "Peace to Ukraine, Freedom to Russia!" In bright-red paint he's listed the names of Ukrainian towns that have been attacked by the Russian army.
Mariupol, Bucha, Kherson, Chernihiv, and many more.
"I thought this would be a good way of getting information out," Dmitry tells me.
"Because for the first few weeks of the war our people didn't know what was happening. They thought that some kind of special operation was being conducted to remove drug addicts from the Ukrainian government. They didn't know that Russia was shelling Ukrainian towns." . .
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