(17 Nov 2024)
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Rome, Italy – 17 November 2024
1. Woman wrapped in Ukrainian flag holding sign reading (English): “Did you know? It’s been 1000 days of Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine”
2. Wide of protest, Ukrainian flags
3. Close of protester’s sign showing photo montage of Russian President Vladimir Putin with photograph of bombed building
4. Protesters holding signs showing Putin’s face, bombed buildings and rockets
5. Protester waving Ukrainian flag
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Maria Meleshko, Ukrainian resident in Italy:
“There must be a just peace. We cannot forgive all that Putin has done during all these years, not just from 2014 but also before. He never let us live in peace, so we cannot and we will not forgive, we cannot surrender, for the sake of our future.”
7. Close of poster with artwork of Putin behind bars, reading (English): “Put-in jail”
8. Protesters holding Ukrainian flags and signs
9. Close of Ukraine flag pin on jacket
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Emanuele Pinelli, protester:
“As it happened in the past already, this conflict cannot end as things stand today, maybe it will be frozen but then tomorrow it will start again and be even worse. The only way it could be over is to completely deplete the military means of the Russian Federation and topple the Russian regime, then it will be over. If now we say that we are tired (of the war) and so let’s stop it, it means we will see something worse in a few years again, as it happened already in the past. Therefore we need to do more, not less.”
11. Protesters wrapped with Ukraine and NATO flags
12. Protesters holding Ukraine, European Union and Georgian flags
13. Close of flags
14. Close of signs held by protesters, reading (English): “Did you know? 10,000 North Korean soldiers joined Russian side" (right) and "It’s not just ‘Putin’s’ war: 500k Russian soldiers are invading Ukraine" (left)
15. Protesters holding banners and Ukrainian flags
STORYLINE:
Dozens gathered in Rome on Sunday to mark the approaching 1,000th day since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
People from the Ukrainian community in Italy were joined by Italians and other foreign nationals living in Italy, a few hundred metres from the Russian Federation’s embassy in the Italian capital.
Many protesters wore Ukrainian flags and held banners and placards calling for a stop to the invasion.
They also held a religious ceremony and observed a moment of silence for fallen Ukrainian soldiers.
Since Russia’s all-out invasion of its smaller neighbour on Feb. 24, 2022, Europe’s biggest armed conflict since World War II has cost tens of thousands of lives on both sides.
Thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been killed in the fighting. Others have lost their family, their homes and their livelihoods.
“There must be a just peace. We cannot forgive all that Putin has done during all these years, not just from 2014 but also before,” said Maria Meleshko, a Ukrainian woman who has been living in Italy for years.
“He never let us live in peace, so we cannot and we will not forgive, we cannot surrender, for the sake of our future,” she added.
Another protester, Emanuele Pinelli, said he thought the conflict could reoccur if it was ended "as things stand today."
"It means we will see something worse in a few years again, as it happened already in the past. Therefore we need to do more, not less," he said.
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