Russia-Ukraine War
Identifying but from a distance: Demonstrations of support for Ukraine around the world
In major cities around the world, protesters tonight protested against the Russian invasion, and identified with the pain of Ukraine.
The earliest known protest took place outside the Russian embassy in Washington about three hours after the announcement of the invasion.
Demonstrations also took place in Tel Aviv and Haifa.
"Only a miracle will stop this terrible thing"
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24/02/2022
Thursday, 24 February 2022, 23:24 Updated: Friday, 25 February 2022, 08:19
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Protesters arrived today (Thursday) at public centers and outside Russian embassies around the world to condemn the invasion of Ukraine.
The earliest known protest took place outside the Russian embassy in Washington at around 1 a.m. local time (8 a.m. Israel time), just three hours after President Vladimir Putin said he had launched his military operation.
Local news reports showed dozens of protesters in the capital of the bar countries waving Ukrainian flags and chanting "Stop Russian aggression".
Later that day a huge Ukrainian flag was hoisted in Times Square in New York by a crowd of several hundred protesters.
In Israel today, hundreds of people demonstrated in front of the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv and at the Russian consulate in Haifa against the invasion.
The demonstrators, many of them immigrants from Ukraine, cursed Putin in Ukrainian, carried Ukrainian flags and posters in Ukrainian, English and Hebrew, spray-painted graffiti and sang patriotic songs and delivered speeches.
"We are here to prepare and organize to help the civilians there and the army," said one of the organizers, saying he was "shocked that so many came." During the evening, four of the protesters were arrested.
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Demonstrations in support of Ukraine around the world
1/8 Madrid, Spain (Photo: Reuters)
Hundreds of protesters, many of them Ukrainians, also gathered in London outside Downing Street, the prime minister's home, urging Britain to do more for Ukraine.
"We need help, we need someone to support us," one said.
"Ukraine is too small and the pressure is too great."
Further demonstrations took place in Paris, Madrid, Beirut, Dublin and Prague and other cities around the world.
Agami Tamir, 28, one of several dozen members of the Ukrainian community in Greece who staged a demonstration in Athens, said that "the only thing we believe is that a miracle will stop all this horrible and frightening thing that is happening at the moment".
Russia itself has also protested many against the Russian invasion, even though Russia has explicitly threatened to prosecute and even punish anyone who calls for demonstration or takes part in the demonstrations.
Despite this, hundreds protested in cities including Moscow, St. Petersburg and Viktorburg, and more.
So far, Russian police have arrested about 1,745 people in 54 Russian cities and arrested them.
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