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A30 world news
Dialuna 14 Maart 2022

Anti-war protests across Europe, small rallies in Russia

Moscow time. media carry frequent pro- the attacks must stop “before
Russia reports about the war. cities are reduced to cemeter-
There was a heavy police ies.”
presence at central loca- One day after rallies in Flor-
tions including Manezhnaya ence and Naples, Italians and In Cyprus, dozens of Russian
Square near the Kremlin, Ukrainians who live in Italy nationals joined Ukrainians
with officers carrying dem- turned out for protests in in the coastal resort town of
onstrators away to waiting Milan and Rome on Sunday Limassol Sunday to protest
police vans, in footage posted against the war in Ukraine. the war in Ukraine. About
by Russian media. The num- 50 Russians converged on
ber of people protesting na- In the first row of a march in Limassol’s promenade prior
tionwide appeared to be far Milan, Italy’s financial capi- to joining with other pro-
fewer than the last major pro- tal, protesters held bloodied testers to chant slogans such
tests a week ago, when OVD- cloth bundles to represent as “Stop the war, stop Putin”
Info listed more than 5,000 children killed in Russian at- and waving blue and white
people who were detained. tacks on Ukrainians. Some flags they said where the
children held drawings, and Russian national flag without
(AP) — Tens of thousands Russian Embassy, said the Anti-war protests were also many marchers streaked their the red stripe that represent-
of people rallied Sunday images from Ukraine re- staged in Warsaw, London cheeks in the colors of the ed “blood and violence.”
in cities across Europe to minded him of the bombing and the German cities of Ukrainian flag.
protest against Russia’s of cities during World War II. Frankfurt, Hamburg and Protester Evgeniya Shlyko-
ongoing war in Ukraine, Stuttgart. Before the march, protesters va, who has been living and
with small vigils taking Several participants at the stretched out an enormous, working in Cyprus for five
place in Russia as well Berlin protest said they were A small far-right party or- rainbow-colored peace flag years, told The Associated
despite a crackdown by Russians ashamed about what ganized a protest in Serbia’s in a Milan square. Press that despite Russian
authorities against such their country was doing. capital, Belgrade, in sup- propaganda, Ukraine “didn’t
demonstrations. port of Russia’s invasion of In Rome’s march, one of the deserve this action from our
“We’re against this war so we Ukraine. participants held a cardboard government” and that pro-
German trade unions called wanted to show our solidar- sign that read, “Close the testers demand an immediate
a protest in Berlin, where ity,” said Aleksandra Beloz- The occupants of dozens of Sky,” an apparent reference to end to the war “that we don’t
sunny weather boosted the erova, a Russian studying in cars waved Russian and Ser- Ukraine’s plea to NATO to support.”
turnout. The march led from Germany. “It’s the least we bian flags, honked horns and establish a no-fly zone over
the city’s Alexanderplatz — can do in this situation.” chanted slogans in favor of Ukraine against Russian war- “I do believe that the person
a large square named after Russian President Vladimir planes. Italy’s government, who did the most to make
Russian Tsar Alexander I — Her friend, Aliia Biktagirova, Putin. Some cars had “Z” like that of fellow NATO Russia weak and not united is
to a site near the Branden- held a sign with letters for the painted on them — the letter allies, have ruled out a no- Putin himself,” said Shlyko-
burg Gate. Russian phrase for “No War” is used on Russian armored fly zone option, contend- va who faulted the Russian
represented as asterisks to re- vehicles in Ukraine and is ing such a move would risk president and his support-
Many participants carried flect the censorship she said now a symbol of support for vastly widening the conflict ers for bringing the world’s
flags in the blue and yel- is taking place in Russia con- Russian troops. in Europe. wrath on Russia that is proud
low colors of Ukraine, while cerning the conflict. of its humanistic values and
others bore banners reading Despite formally seeking Eu- Pope Francis decried the culture. “But now Russia is
“Stop the War” and “Peace In Russia, where demon- ropean Union membership, “barbarianism” of the kill- the aggressor for the whole
and Solidarity for the people strations against the war in Serbia has refused to join in- ing of children and other de- world, and we protest it.”
in Ukraine.” Ukraine have been typically ternational sanctions against fenseless civilians in Ukraine.
met with a heavy police re- its ally Russia despite voting He told a crowd estimated by Earlier Sunday, Ukrainian
Norbert Herring, who held sponse, rights group OVD- in favor of the U.N. resolu- the Vatican to number 25,000 nationals in Taiwan and sup-
up a sign that read “What are Info said more than 668 tion condemning Moscow’s people gathered in St. Peter’s porters also staged a march in
you doing to your neighbor?” people had been detained in aggression. The country’s Square for his customary Taipei to protest the Russian
as the crowds filed past the 36 cities as of late afternoon dominant state-controlled Sunday noon appearance that invasion of Ukraine.

Bus full of Ukrainian refugees overturns in Italy; 1 dead

(AP) — A bus carrying to set the bus upright and re- in the crash, the Italian news it overturned, and had set out of them through its north-
Ukrainian refugees over- move it after helping the sur- agency LaPresse said. Milan from western Ukraine, La- eastern border with Slovenia.
turned on a major high- vivors to get out of the bus. daily Corriere della Sera said Presse said.
way in northern Italy at the woman was crushed un- Forli’ is in the region of
dawn on Sunday, killing The cause of the crash was der the bus. Around 35,000 Ukrainians Emilia-Romagna, which bor-
a young mother, Italian under investigation. High- refugees who fled after Russia ders the Adriatic Sea.
firefighters and news re- way Police official Andrea Earlier, firefighters had said launched war in their home-
ports said. Biagioli said there were no there were about 50 refugees land have entered Italy, most
skid marks. aboard the bus. But Corriere
Italian state TV said there della Sera said that only 22
were also five people injured, Italy’s Interior Ministry said refugees had been aboard the
but none of the injuries was the bus had set out from bus that flipped on its side,
serious, in the crash on the Ukraine and was heading while others were on a sec-
A14 highway near Forli’, a south to Pescara, an Adriatic ond bus that wasn’t involved
town in the Emilia-Romagna port city, when it overturned. in the crash.
region in northeastern Italy. The passengers were taken to
It said the rest of those aboard a nearby police barracks for The children were taken to a
were safely evacuated. initial assistance, and would hospital where they were re-
later resume their journey, ceiving psychological as well
The bus landed on its side on the ministry said. as medical assistance, LaPre-
a grassy slope just beyond a sse said.
highway guardrail and near a The victim was a 32-year-old
farm field. Firefighters used woman whose two children, The bus had been on the
two cranes in an operation ages 5 and 10, suffered bruises road for about 20 hours when