“Don’t get used to war!” : two years after the Russian invasion, Ukrainian nationals and supporters remain involved

Une centaine de personnes enroulées dans un drapeau ukrainien sont venues manifester leur soutien. MIDI LIBRE – GIACOMO ITALIANO

A rally in support of the Ukrainian people was held this Saturday morning, on the square in front of the Comédie Opera, decorated in the colors of Ukraine.

The president of the SOS Ukraine association, Lyudmyla Tsivka spoke this Saturday morning in front of around a hundred people, who came to support the Ukrainian people, alongside local elected officials and # 39;a Russian association, essential support, two years to the day after the start of the massive invasion led by Vladimir Putin.

February 24, 2022, at 4:40 a.m….

"On February 24, 2022, at 4:40 a.m., life changed, it stopped for some, put itself on hold for others; others", comments the one who took over as president of SOS Ukraine a year ago.

Soldiers and civilian victims killed at the front or under bombings, forced displacements in Russian zones,  Lyudmyla Tsivka points to a declining population, aggravated by the exile of some 6 million of people who left to take refuge in Europe, "but the majority remained in their homeland, close to the combatants, and if the latter were to be missing, that's it' The entire West would be in danger, she warns.

Russian activists who came to support SOS Ukraine associated the death of Alexeï Navalny, main opponent of Vladimir Putin with "a booster shot to the West& quot;, setting him up as a "martyr of the resistance, like Nelson Mandela".

"Don't get used to the war in Ukraine", Lyudmyla Tsivka concluded. "Help us, militarily, financially. Beware and support us against this common evil."