‘We cannot contain our pain’: Hundreds rally in Vancouver to support Ukraine
Global News
The spontaneous rally came less than a day after Russian forces began what appears to be an all out assault on Ukraine.
Hundreds of people gathered at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Thursday, Feb. 24, to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine, as fighting with Russia intensified in the Eastern European nation.
The spontaneous rally came less than a day after Russian forces began what appears to be an all-out assault on Ukraine, with attacks far beyond the separatist eastern districts President Vladimir Putin has claimed he was authorizing military force to help.
“We cannot contain our pain, we cannot contain our anger, we cannot contain our frustration. We need to be together in this dark time for Ukraine,” Ukrainian Canadian Congress B.C. council president Natalia Jatskevich told Global News.
“I have not slept through this night, because I have family in Ukraine like many other people here today … it’s mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, sometimes wife, sometimes children. I don’t think anyone in this crowd slept.”
The invasion of Ukraine has been met with international condemnation, and on Thursday Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced sanctions targeting Russian elites and major Russian banks in response.
There are an estimated 200,000 people of Ukrainian descent living in British Columbia.
In B.C., the flag of Ukraine was hoisted at the provincial legislature in a show of solidarity, and the City of North Vancouver said it would illuminate city hall in blue and yellow.
While the support is appreciated, Ukrainian Canadians told Global News it did little to ease their fears for family in Europe.
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