Demonstrators rallying in support of Ukraine waved large and small flags in the country’s colors of blue and yellow on the streets of Manhattan as they protested Russia’s invasion.
Protestors unfurled the Ukrainian flag in Times Square on Thursday as part of a ‘Stop Putin Rally’ organized by locals with close ties to Ukraine.
Another rally took place at the United Nations, while a third occurred at 91st Street and Madison Avenue, near the Russian Consulate. Hundreds of posts came pouring in condemning Moscow’s most aggressive actions since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Vladimir Putin called the attack a "special military operation" to protect civilians in eastern Ukraine from "genocide" — a false claim the U.S. had predicted would be a pretext for invasion, and which many Russians roundly rejected.
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