From Washington, D.C. to Paris to Tel Aviv, people around the world this week protested Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, waving the Ukrainian flag and spotlighting its national blue and yellow colors.
The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Colosseum in Rome, London’s Downing Street and the European Union headquarters in Brussels were illuminated in yellow and blue this week to show solidarity for Ukraine after Russia invaded the country, The Washington Post reported.
Demonstrators held signs reading “No war” in Tokyo and “Hands off Ukraine” in Berlin. A protester demonstrating outside of the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv lit her Russian passport on fire, CBS News reported.
“We’ve been trying to build peace on this continent for the last 70 years,” a French consultant, Goery Mourez, told the Post. “It’s important to say no to [Russian President Vladimir Putin]’s madness.”
In Russia, however, the response to similar protests held in St. Petersburg and Moscow were pointedly different, with officials detaining hundreds in St. Petersburg alone, according to CBS News.
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