Dressed within the blue and yellow of Ukraine's flag and bearing posters crying "Cease Battle" and "Putin is a killer", lots of of 1000's of individuals took to Europe’s streets over the weekend to present their solidarity with Ukraine.
Locations that are often packed filled with vacationers like Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Wenceslas Sq. in Prague and outdoors Downing Road in London remodeled into demonstration grounds and have been as a substitute stuffed with their very own metropolis’s residents.
The demonstrations had a number of goals: to indicate solidarity with Ukraine, to protest towards Russia and to name for his or her international locations to intervene or impose harsher sanctions on Russia.
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Within the German capital, police estimated the turnout to be at the least 100,000, whereas Prague drew 70,000 and in Amsterdam 15,000 folks gathered in Dam Sq..
Organisers of the Berlin protest put the numbers at 5 instances the police estimate, with demonstrators massing between the Brandenburg Gate and the Victory column - a stone's throw from town’s Russian embassy.
"It is truly a gesture of helplessness, as a result of there's nothing extra we will do, however it's the least we will do,” says Bettina von Kleist, a retired German author who joined Berlin’s solidarity march.
“As Putin continues to say that this can be a peace mission, I feel that if the world stands up, this can at the least be disproved. And that the pictures, which can even be seen in Ukraine and different international locations, will give braveness."
In Switzerland, 1000's of individuals gathered throughout the nation. In Geneva about 1,000 flocked to the ‘Damaged Chair’ - a big sculpture symbolising the civilian victims of battle - exterior the United Nations' European headquarters.
Watch the video above to see extra from throughout Europe.
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