Edmontonians rally at University of Alberta to show support for Ukraine
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Students and staff gathered at the University of Alberta to show solidarity with people living in Ukraine.
For students and staff at the University of Alberta, the focus is usually on classes, but on Monday many minds were focused on the war in Ukraine.
About 200 people gathered at the university in Edmonton, holding signs and Ukrainian flags to show support.
Rally organizer Natalie Hans, who is also the president of the Ukrainian Students’ Society, has family in Ukraine.
“Those of us with family and friends in Ukraine, we have no more words for what we feel,” Hans said.
The rally lasted about half an hour, but it was long enough to make a difference for so many who are struggling with seeing what is happening.
“The rally is first and foremost to identify Ukrainian people, to show we stand with Ukraine,” Hans told reporters. “It just shows that everyone understands what’s going on with the war that Russia has initiated with Ukraine, their further invasion day by day.
Alla Nedashkivska, chair of the university’s modern languages and cultural studies department, said no one is doing well and the people of Ukraine are not OK.
She has been keeping in touch with family multiple times a day.
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