As I stood interviewing a sobbing woman on the fringes of an anti-war protest in Moscow, two police officers twice my size grabbed me by the elbows.

“To the bus! Take her,” another officer yelled to his colleagues, motioning to drag me off the central Pushkin Square towards one of dozens of police vans used to round-up demonstrators.

My notepad and a pencil in hand, I kept saying: “I’m a journalist.” As The Telegraph’s Moscow correspondent, I had come out to report on the anti-war protests that had broken out after Vladimir Putin shocked the nation with his invasion of Ukraine.

Read more from Nataliya here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/25/reporting-vladimir-putins-crackdown-anti-war-protests-arrested/

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