Syria and Ukraine Protests In opposition to Putin: On Saturday twenty second February 2014 Syrians and supporters at one in every of their common protests reverse the Russian Embassy had been joined by lots of of Ukrainians additionally protesting in opposition to Putin.
Protests had been happening in Ukraine for the reason that earlier November in opposition to Ukraine’s pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych and Russian troopers in unmarked fight gear had been already working in components of Ukraine and 5 days after this protest Russian forces seized management of strategic websites in Crimea. In April 2014 militants backed by Russia took management of some cities within the Donbas area within the east of Ukraine and declared two unbiased states within the space which had been then covertly supported by Russia with troopers, tanks and artillery.
The Syrian Revolution in opposition to the brutally dictatorial Assad regime had begun in February 2011, a part of the broader Arab Spring. By the center of 2012 it had turn into a navy civil struggle, with Assad’s forces being supported by Iran and Russia, and supporters of Free Syria had been holding common protests reverse the Russian Embassy throughout the principle street from the personal road the place the embassy is.
A number of hundred Ukrainians had come to name or an finish to Russian interference within the Ukraine, for an finish to violence, and for Yanukovych to go.
Whereas there they heard and cheered loudkt the newest information from the Parliament in Kiev, that the speaker of the parliament, legal professional normal and inside minister had been replaces and jailed opposition chief Yulia Tymoshenko freed.
After an hour of protest I went with the Ukrainians as they marched east alongside Holland Park Avenue to the statue of St Volodymyr, ruler of Ukraine 980-1015, erected by Ukrainians in Nice Britain in 1988 to have fun the institution of Christianity in Ukraine by St Volodymyr in 988.
Right here across the base of the statue had been lots of of lighted candles, together with flowers and different tributes to the various pro-opposition protesters who’ve been killed in Kiev and elsewhere within the Ukraine and extra images of them had been added.
Two Ukrainian Orthodox monks led a service in reminiscence of those that had died within the protests to determine a free and unbiased Ukraine and other people held up Ukrainian flags.
Ukrainians Protest, Rejoice and Mourn
Syrian Peace Protest at Russian Embassy
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