Requires peace, accompanied by rallies demanding the top of the Russian invasion of Ukraine had been seen throughout Europe over the weekend, because the battle handed its one-year mark.
A number of hundred Ukrainians gathered in Rome on Sunday, many draped within the yellow and blue of their nationwide flag - to name for an finish to the killing and the swift return of peace.
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Some protesters expressed anti-war messages via performances of avenue theatre. One demonstrator was dressed because the grim reaper, sporting a masks of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he waved a scythe at performers sporting Ukrainian flags, whereas one other lay on the bottom subsequent to a bit woman 'taking part in useless' amidst the black smoke of a flare, staging one of many many harrowing scenes attributable to Russian bombing.
"Ukraine will not be theirs (Russians) and by no means will likely be, as a result of the Ukrainians, even when they had been frozen alive, would insurgent as quickly as they had been in a position to," stated Ulyana Kinash, a Ukrainian music trainer. "Now even kids know that those that are bombing should not the People however the Russians."
“The strongest factor in our hearts is the Ukrainian resistance as a result of we're a pacifist individuals and we need to be free with our concept of freedom as a result of, if anybody would not realize it, now we have been preventing in opposition to Russia as an aggressor for 400 years,” added protester Yaku Bovsky.
In Madrid, crowds gathered for an occasion organised by Ukrainian associations and faculties within the Spanish capital.
Protesters, waving flags and banners, marched from the Plaza de Colón for singing, dancing, and speeches honouring the Ukrainian army defending their homeland earlier than marching to Plaza de Cibeles.
Over the weekend comparable rallies and marches had been held in Berlin, Paris, London and different European capitals, and got here because the European Union agreed on Saturday to impose new sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
The brand new measures goal extra officers and organisations accused of supporting the battle, spreading propaganda, or supplying drones, in addition to limiting commerce on merchandise that may very well be utilized by the Russian armed forces.
Proposed by the European Fee three weeks in the past, the sanctions had been solely adopted after a lot deliberation and inside wrangling over the main points, and had been made public someday after the primary anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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