The organizers of Saturday’s march said In a joint statement, that Ukraine has been made vulnerable by not being provided with enough aid to defeat Russia and is being “expected to consign its own citizens to occupation under a deal imposed by Trump”.
They added that they were calling for “renewed solidarity, that peace must come with the full withdrawal of Russian forces”, as well as for a “surge in military aid to strengthen Ukraine in any negotiations and be able to finally end the occupation if no just agreement is secured”.
Placards carried by the protesters saying “Occupation is not Peace” and “Don’t Betray Ukraine” behind a banner calling for “Russian Troops Out”.
Ukrainian singers from the Hromada choir led the marchers and assembled at a statue of St Volodymyr, a national saint of Ukraine, near Holland Park.
They then marched from the statue, erected in 1988 to commemorate the 1,000th anniversary of the Christianisation of Ukraine, to the Russian embassy at Kensington Palace Gardens.
The director of Campaign for Ukraine, Olena Ivashchenko, said Kyiv’s future was “being decided by politicians behind closed doors” and that “true and sustainable peace cannot be achieved without justice”.
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