An estimated 100,00 demonstrators gathered in Berlin's Strasse des 17.Juni (top) earlier today in support of Ukraine's fight against the invasion of their country by Putin's Russia. Tens of thousands more also gathered in Prague to protest (bottom).
Thousands of people around the globe, from Tblisi, Georgia, to Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Rome and elsewhere, took to the streets and squares to protest Putin's brutal assault on his neighbor (see here, and here). Nations that were formerly reluctant to express outrage have been inspired by the Ukrainian resistance, led by President Zelenskyy, who has become an unlikely hero. Some brave Russians have demonstrated against the Putin regime, too, risking imprisonment or worse.
Germany's position just days ago was to support Ukraine with non-lethal assistance, but it has made a swift change to providing weapons and fuel to the struggling Ukrainian forces, something that Germany has never done in the past 75 years.
(top photo: Markus Schrieber / AP; bottom photo unattributed)
