Montreal city councillor devoted to daily protest against Russian invasion of Ukraine
“We all thought that we, all the westerners, would be able to help Ukraine to put a stop to that war after a few weeks,” he said, “but a year later it’s still going on.”The conflict started February 24, 2022. Since then, according to the World Health Organization, there have been over 7,000 conflict-related deaths and more than 18 million people have fled Ukraine.
“It’s a genocidal war against Ukraine,” the city councillor pointed out, and it’s more than a war against Ukraine. He argues that it’s also a war against democracy, a view shared by the handful of antiwar protesters who gather with him sometimes, including Carole LeDez whose adopted kids are Russian. “They are very ashamed to be Russian,” she said, “after having brought them up to be proud of their culture.”“At the very beginning I thought that my daughter got some hate messages on social media, but she’s more or less cut herself off from that now,” she explained.
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