Thousands marched from Ukrainian Village to the Loop last weekend in a show of solidarity. | unlistenmusic
The call-and-response salute proclaiming glory to Ukraine and its people echoed out through Ukranian Village on February 27, where nearly 5,000 people of all ages and walks of life gathered around the steps of the Sts. Volodymyr and Olha Catholic Church on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. About half of them would also march downtown, with more Chicagoans joining along the way.
That message wasn’t lost on the crowd. Amid a sea of blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flags, there were homemade signs expressing messages of solidarity, prayers for peace, calls for action to Western leadership, and demands for an end to Russian aggression. One woman held up a sign warning “Today Ukraine, tomorrow you.
“The world has come to the realization that today Ukrainians are spilling their blood to make the world safer for democracy,” Bandriwsky says. She later pointed out that, while full-scale invasion may have just begun, the war between Russia and Ukraine started in 2014. That’s when Russia annexed Crimea, and Russian-backed separatists seized parts of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, including Lisa’s hometown Horlivka. The resulting violence led to thousands of deaths, and displaced 1.6 million people by 2016—including Lisa’s family, who relocated to Kyiv.
Just as Ukranians can’t afford to give up their fight, the rest of us have a role to play in supporting them, and there are plenty of ways to get involved. Korneichuk suggests donating to Ukrainian and international humanitarian organizations, such as the Red Cross.
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