Ukraine news LATEST: Evil Putin’s forces arrest protestors as Russian anger over biggest conscription since WWII grows

RUSSIAN anger over Putin’s drive to conscript a further 300,000 troops to serve in Ukraine is growing as protest arrests climb. A huge 1,300 arrests have been made across Russia in protests of Vladimir Putin‘s drive to conscript thousands more people to serve in the Ukraine war. New images show demonstrators taking to the streets overnight in 38 cities – but were tackled with brute force by armoured riot police. Putin yesterday ordered the mobilisation of Russian civilians and called up 300,000 reservists in a “chest-banging” speech on TV in which he also made a thinly veiled threat to nuke the West. He warned: “Our country has various means of defence, and in some components more advanced than those of Nato countries. When the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will use all the means at our disposal to defend Russia and our people. This is not a bluff. Read our Ukraine-Russia live blog below for the latest udpates…