As Ukraine struggled via one other day below assault, a wave of world anger with Russia unfold the world over on Sunday, with anti-war protests occurring in quite a few international locations -- together with Russia.
Throughout Europe and Canada, there was practically common condemnation.
Greater than 100,000 marched via Berlin on Sunday, standing in solidarity with Ukraine.
"I'm horrified, completely horrified,” stated Uwe Kruger, a Berlin resident. “I can't discover the phrases. I could not consider it. I used to be, up till 14 days in the past, somebody who thought he understood Putin. That is over now."
One other man described the invasion as “an assault on us all.”
Protesters confirmed their help via numbers to ship a message.
"I feel our leaders are under no circumstances taking sufficient motion to assist Ukrainians who're our neighbours and our pals and who're getting invaded,” stated Claire Chaulet, one other German protester. “They're shedding their sovereignty.”
In Prague, hundreds gathered within the Central Sq., joined by Czech Republic Prime Minister, Petr Fiala.
"We can't settle for that tanks can come to a rustic and crush the will for freedom and democracy there,” Fiala stated on the protest. “We can't settle for that. Thanks to your help and glory to Ukraine."
Retaliation in opposition to Putin’s conflict can be rising from inside Russia itself. The uncommon act of defiance has been constructing for days.
Anti-war protests unfold to 48 cities throughout the nation on Sunday, however in Moscow riot police outnumbers the protesters. Police arrested greater than 5,500 folks within the crackdown.
Anti-war protests had been additionally held in cities throughout Canada, a refrain of voices rising in dimension over the weekend.
Hundreds rallied in Toronto, joined be Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.
“It's horrific and individuals are dying in Ukraine proper now for completely no purpose, and we've to keep in mind that,” she stated through the rally.
Freeland instructed the gang to be pleased with the brave stand Ukrainians had been taking.
“The Ukrainians are doing one hell of a job,” she stated.
In Edmonton, Vitalii Haponiuk joined hundreds to march on Sunday. Like many within the protest, she is from Ukraine, having come to Canada as a scholar three years in the past.
“I am apprehensive about my mother and father,” Haponiuk instructed The Canadian Press. “They reside in a small city, however even there they heard Russian planes, Russian bombs. It is very scary.”
In Montreal’s protest, 17-year-old Anya Dashe instructed The Canadian Press that her father is in Ukraine and referred to as them at present to say goodbye.
“He thinks he’s going to die at present as a result of there are a number of bombs going over my metropolis,” she stated.
There was a big crowd outdoors the B.C. legislature on Sunday to precise their anger over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The gang included native politicians in addition to folks like Oleksandr Filonovych, who's afraid for the safely of his household.
"Just about all of my household besides my spouse and my child are in Ukraine, so my mother, my brother, my dad, all my cousins, all people," Filonovych stated, including that a lot of them are within the capital, Kyiv.
On the Russian embassy in Ottawa, households are fearing for family members now sleeping in bomb shelters.
Jane Rubina’s household is in Ukraine.
“At this level, all people is alive and that’s all we're praying for for the time being,” she instructed CTV Information.
With Ottawa nonetheless recovering from a three-week occupation of truckers and different demonstrators protesting in opposition to vaccine mandates and the federal government, Ottawa resident Jordyn Kiteley stated she was shocked by the quantity of people that turned as much as condemn Russia’s actions.
“I am proud to be Canadian, particularly after all of the dumb convoy stuff we noticed,” she instructed The Canadian Press. “That is simply overpowering to look at and to see how individuals are feeling about it, and that I am not alone with this."
In Winnipeg, there was a “Stand With Ukraine” rally on the Manitoba legislative floor, attended by roughly 2,000 folks.
Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson spoke on the rally, sporting a coat the color of Ukraine’s flag and promising that the province would do all it may to assist Ukrainian refugees.
“Right here on the legislative grounds there's a monument recognizing the 1932 Holodomor, Josef Stalin's compelled famine that killed tens of millions of Ukrainians by hunger," Stefanson stated. "The Ukrainian folks have suffered below the rule of an evil dictator earlier than. Manitobans and all Canadians should do every part we are able to to ensure that by no means occurs once more."
With recordsdata from the Canadian Press, CTVNews.ca's Alexandra Mae Jones and CTVNewsVancouver.ca's Ian Holliday
A big crowd descended on the B.C. legislature constructing on Sunday to sentence Russia's invasion of Ukraine and help the calls for of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress for added support to the besieged nation. (CTV)