'We have a fierce determination to stick it out.' One year on from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a small group of people have been continuing a daily protest outside the Russian embassy in Dublin. Read more: Ukraine
Chocolates are being shared and a flask of coffee provides some warmth from the wind."Shame! Shame on you," shouts a chorus of voices, as the vehicle passes a barrier and disappears behind the automated gates of the Russian embassy in Dublin.Some of them hold placards carrying anti-war messages or calls to expel the Russian ambassador. Several Ukrainian flags are flapping in the breeze.
"I used to come seven days a week, but now I do four or five," says Helen Dwyer."We believe it's important to be here. We have a right to protest. Even over Christmas, we always had someone here each day. We didn't give up." "I don't know of any other similar, continuous protest anywhere in Europe," says Helen Fanning."But unfortunately, it will continue as long as the war does.""One of the women used to hang blue and yellow ribbons on the bushes here. Each one signifying the loss of a child's life in the war. She did it until she just couldn't keep up with the numbers," explains Eibhlín Counihan, against a backdrop of hundreds of ribbons attached to branches.
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