Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Brussels, Zurich, Rome, Paris, Zagreb, London, The Hague and Rotterdam on Saturday to protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Last weekend, hundreds of thousands of people, dressed in blue and yellow, protested in European cities, including Prague, Berlin, Vilnius and Madrid, to condemn the invasion.
At the initiative of the ‘Together 4 Freedom’ movement, according to an estimate by the Brussels-Ixelles police, some fifty people demonstrated on Saturday from 11 a.m. on Place Albertina in Brussels to support the Ukrainian people. The organization ‘Promote Ukraine’ hopes mobilize 20,000 people on Sunday for the ‘Stand with Ukraine’ march† It starts at 1 pm on Koning Albert II-laan. A donation call has been made via the website and the Facebook page of ‘Promote Ukraine’.
In the Hague and Rotterdam its Saturday hundreds of people gathered to demonstrate against Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine. The ‘Stop the war!’ campaign was organized on Malieveld and Koekamp, among others by the SP and the Party for the Animals. Russians living in the Netherlands protested at the Russian embassy. Demonstrations for peace took place on Plein 1940 in Rotterdam.
Saturday came in Zurich, the most populous city in Switzerland, tens of thousands of people on the streets with the slogans “Peace now” and “Stop the war”. Trade unions and left-wing parties in particular had called for protests. According to the organization, the demonstrators were more than 40,000.
In Rome united a great ‘peace procession’ thousands of protesters, on the appeal of several trade unions and numerous NGOs. “No base, not a single soldier, Italy out of NATO” chanted pacifists under the rainbow flag. “It is perhaps one of the first real manifestations for peace. Here nobody believes that you can make peace with weapons, that peace is made by sending weapons to one of the parties,” said Italian cartoonist, writer and actor Vauro Senesi.
In Paris thousands of people gathered in the Place de la République. “We will be there every weekend, in Paris or elsewhere, until Mr Putin leaves and withdraws his tanks,” Aline Le Bail-Kremer of the organization Stand With Ukraine told the French news agency AFP. “Stop the war”, “Putin assassin” and “Save Ukraine” were written on the placards.
In Zagreb more than a thousand people marched to support Ukraine. Several demonstrators dressed themselves in the Ukrainian flag. Protesters wore placards with “Stop the war, save Europe” and “Glory to Ukraine” on.
In London then gathered again hundreds of people in Trafalgar Square, armed with slogans such as “Putin kills” and “Total embargo on Russia”.
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