‘Adolf Putin’ graffiti is scrawled across Russian buildings after Ukrainian supporters around the world mocked up pictures of Vladimir looking like Hitler
- Protests against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine broke out across the world
- In Russia, people protested against the Russian war on neighbouring Ukraine
- Demonstrators even mocked up pictures of the Putin looking like Adolf Hitler
Protests against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine broke out across the world and even reached Russia as people mocked up pictures of the Russian president looking like Adolf Hitler.
Demonstrators called on Putin to stop his war against Ukraine that started in the early hours of Thursday morning.
In Russia, people scrawled ‘Adolf Putin’ on a wall in the Russian president’s hometown of St Petersburg.
One of the earliest known protests was outside Russia’s embassy in Washington DC around 1am on Thursday, shortly after news broke that Russian forces had launched a massive attack against its neighbour.
Graffiti in an underpass in central Saint Petersburg that read ‘Adolf Putin’ in protest of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
A member of South Africa’s Ukrainian Association holds a poster depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin as Adolf Hitler during a protest in support of Ukraine in front of the Russian Embassy in Pretoria, on February 25
A person walks past graffiti as people take part in an anti-war protest in Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 24
Moscovites with placards reading ‘No war. Putin, go away’ and comparing him to Hitler walked the streets
A man holds a placard reading “No” during an anti-war protest in Lenin Square, Novosibirsk in central Russia
People attend an anti-war protest in President Putin’s home town of St Petersburg as critics predict the invasion could lead to his downfall
Video from the protest showed dozens of protesters in the US capital waving Ukrainian flags and chanting ‘stop Russian aggression.’
Footage from protests in Times Square in New York City later that day shows hundreds of demonstrators holding a larger version of the Ukrainian flag and waving it in unison. Others chanted, ‘Putin out of Ukraine’.
Even in Russia people who were against the war made their feelings known by likening Putin to Adolf Hitler.
In the UK people daubed ‘mass murder’ in red graffiti on the side of a Russian visa application centre in Edinburgh.
A woman in Los Angeles holds a sign that seems to compare Putin’s actions to those of the Nazis. Putin has stated that one of his goals is the ‘denazification’ of Ukraine, though the country’s democratically elected president is Jewish
Outside of the Russian embassy in Warsaw, Poland, protesters held up a banner reading, ‘Together with Ukraine’ and waved Ukrainian flags
A group of protesters stood outside the Russian Consulate in Manhattan on Thursday in support of Ukraine
It came as the EU said today that Putin’s actions were comparable to those of the Nazis in World War II.
‘He is talking about de-Nazifying Ukraine, but he behaves like Nazis. So this is all in his head,’ EU spokesman Peter Stano told reporters in Brussels on Friday.
The spokesman was asked about Putin’s purported war aims that include his repeated claim that Russia’s invasion was to prevent a ‘genocide’ against Russian speakers in Ukraine.
‘He’s always saying something about preventing genocide, which is total nonsense because he is committing one or he is about to commit one,’ Stano said.
Missiles pounded Ukraine’s capital on Friday as Russian forces pressed their advance and authorities in Kyiv said they were preparing for an assault aimed at overthrowing the government.
Air raid sirens wailed over Kyiv, a European city of three million people, and some residents sheltered in underground metro stations, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion that has shocked the world.
Ukrainian officials said a Russian aircraft had been shot down and crashed into a building in Kyiv overnight, setting it ablaze and injuring eight people.
A senior Ukrainian official said Russian forces would enter areas just outside the capital later on Friday and that Ukrainian troops were defending positions on four fronts despite being outnumbered.
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