Ukrainian Prez Zelenskyy calls for global protests as Ukraine-Russia war marks one month
Kiev (Ukraine), March 24: As the Russia-Ukraine war marked one month on Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged citizens around the world to take to the streets to protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Calling for global protests beginning Thursday (March 24), one month after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Zelenskyy said, "From this day and after that, show your standing. Come from your offices, your homes, your schools and universities. Come in the name of peace. Come with Ukrainian symbols to support Ukraine, to support freedom, to support life."
"Come to your schoolyards, your streets. Say that people matter, freedom matters, peace matters, Ukraine matters," he continued.
Russia, in the early hours of February 24, launched a special military operation in Ukraine claiming the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) appealed for help in defending themselves against the Kiev forces.
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Moscow said that the aim of its special operation is to demilitarize and "denazify" Ukraine and that only military infrastructure is being targeted. The civilian population is not in danger, it added and repeatedly stressed that it has no plans to occupy Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the goal is to protect the people of Donbas, "who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years."
However, hundreds of civilians have been killed and hundreds more injured. Over three million Ukrainians have fled their war-torn country since Russia started its invasion.
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