Police detained more than 4,300 people on Sunday at Russia-wide protests against President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to an independent protest monitoring group, writes Al Jazeera.

Thousands of protesters chanted “No to war!” and “Shame on you!”, according to videos posted on social media by opposition activists and bloggers.

The OVD-Info protest monitoring group said it had documented the detention of at least 4,366 people in 56 different cities.

The arrests on Sunday brought the total number of people held in anti-war protests since the invasion began on February 24 to more than 10,000.