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Solidarity with Ukraine: Tens of thousands of students and supporters of Fridays for Future demonstrated under this motto in Germany on Thursday.
In front of the Bundestag in Berlin, they set a sign for peace with colorful posters.
Theresa Sturm: "We want to encourage Ukraine not to lose hope and that Putin realizes that all the hate in the world, that he might then realize that it's not the right thing to do."
Mohammad Isa: "For all the people who are dying in Ukraine, or refugees who are fleeing: we should express our hearts and everything we have and we must not forget them, we must support them."
Jonas Malanowski: "And it could also be that at some point we too will be involved and that maybe a very bad war will break out, maybe even the Third World War, and I would like that not to happen."
The fears of a further escalation of the war are also noticeable in the schools.
The teacher Florian Bublys registered the demo at the suggestion of his students.
Florian Bublys, teacher: "There is a great need to be informed in order to understand what's going on. But the anger is also great, the annoyance, lack of understanding and also fears, because of course we also address that in class. And in these bad times it is the best sign that the students show solidarity, are so committed and for peace and democracy, which we took for granted for a long time."
The Fridays For Future activists called for an end to the import of fossil fuels from Russia and the end of the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2.
Carla Reemtsma, Fridays For Future: "This war is a fossil war. And that means that one of the answers must be the rapid exit from coal, oil and gas, an import ban for Russian fossil fuels and, accordingly, the radical entry into renewables and an accelerated energy transition."
The reason that the eponymous Friday demos were brought forward a day this time: Ukrainian activists had asked for it.
Due to the worsening situation in their home country.