A heartbreaking video shows a Russian mum trying to explain to her tearful daughter why they've been detained for opposing the war in Ukraine.
Along with a group of other mothers and their children, Ekaterina Zavizion and her daughter Sofya, seven, had gone to lay flowers outside the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow.
The kids had also made 'No to War' posters, before they were all accosted by armed officers and taken first into a police van and then to cells.
The video shows Ekaterina and Sofya talking through the metal cage, clutching each others' hands through the grills.
The police brought them by van to the Presnenskoye station where their phones were confiscated.
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The officers were allegedly shouting at the parents and threatening them that the children could be put into care and they would lose all parental rights.
In the video, Ekaterina is heard telling her daughter: "They don’t want many people gathering in one space."
The child then asks: "Why are you sitting there?"
And her mum replies: "Everything is going to be good, do you trust me?"
Ekaterina later told of the "hell" she suffered as her children screamed and wept when they were detained.
“I had watched videos showing the horrible inhumane bombing in Kharkiv - and realised I could no longer sit under a bush shaking and pretend nothing was happening," she said.
"My heart is tearing with sorrow and pain.
“I had the most peaceful intentions - to lay flowers in the memory of civilians and children who had perished in Ukraine.”
She wanted to show “we are not indifferent” and that “we are dying here too from sorrow and pain.”
On being detained with her children, she said: “It was surreal, I was not prepared for it.
“The children started screaming, it was hell.
“God, I will never forget those minutes.”
She added: “Perhaps it would have been safer for my family to stay silent and not go anywhere."
