STOP THE WAR IN UKRAINE!!!

Thousands of innocent people in Ukraine were killed by Russian forces in 2022.

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014. Following the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, and Russian-backed paramilitaries seized part of the Donbas region of south-eastern Ukraine, consisting of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts. In 2021, Russia began a large military build-up along its border with Ukraine, amassing up to 190,000 troops and their equipment. In a televised address shortly before the invasion, Russian president Vladimir Putin espoused irredentist views, challenged Ukraine's right to statehood, and falsely claimed Ukraine was governed by neo-Nazis who persecuted the ethnic Russian minority. The invasion began on the morning of 24 February, when Putin announced a "special military operation" for the "demilitarisation and denazification" of Ukraine, reinforcing his false narrative associating Ukraine with Nazism. Minutes later, missiles and airstrikes hit across Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv, followed by a large ground invasion from multiple directions.

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  After the Russian occupation, a mass grave with more than 280 bodies of civilians was found in the city of Bucha. April 3.
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  New burials of Russian aggression victims at the cemetery of the city of Irpin. April 2022.
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  A boy near the city center at Mariupol.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

1. Help Ukrainian refugee in your region
2. Donate to Ukrainian defenders

Coded by Viktoriia Koba