Ukrainians rally in D.C. to protest Russian attack on their home country
“I was in shock, and we were very much afraid,” said Nadiya Shaporynska, who was one of the demonstration’s organizers and is from the Ukrainian city Dnipro, in an interview Thursday. “I had the feeling that we should do something. We came to Russia’s embassy to show our protest and to say, ‘Hands off Ukraine. Stop the war in Ukraine.’ ”Shaporynska, president of U.S. Ukrainian Activists, said they remained until 5 a.m.
Around 1:30 p.m., outside the Russian Embassy in a normally quiet corner of Northwest Washington, about 20 protesters gathered in the rain as temperatures hovered above freezing. Standing across from Boris Nemstov Plaza — a street named for a slain Russian dissident — they waved blue-and-yellow balloons to honor Ukraine’s flag and held signs that read “Stop Putin Now,” the letters streaking in the rain. Some passing drivers on Wisconsin Avenue honked their car horns in support.
U.S. Secret Service patrol, which handles security outside the foreign embassies in D.C., took the woman into custody over the defacing of property, a spokesperson for the U.S. Secret Service said. The identity of the woman was not immediately released pending charges being filed.Over in D.C.
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