Representation of children- victims of the war in Ukraine were performed on Saturday afternoon by women from Ukraine living in Paphos, making handmade dolls, thus expressing their protest and disgust at the merciless bombing of their country and its civilian population.
With placards in their hands bearing slogans such as "protect our children in Ukraine" , "stop the death of our children" , "Russia is killing Ukraine's children"[/B] and holding flags and handmade dolls bearing wounds in various parts of their bodies, Ukrainian residents of Paphos expressed their grief and pain for the war in their country.
Tatiana Andreadi said in a statement that the protest event was held in reaction to the war in her home country of Ukraine. She also called on the world and other countries to support and stand by Ukraine as they can, but also to close Ukraine's airspace to stop the bombing.
Speaking about the handmade dolls they made, she said they symbolize the children killed by the war in her country. We, she said, we support that every child has the right to life and our children cannot die in Ukraine today.
Olena, a Ukrainian resident of Pafos, noted that with the protest event they want to show how many children are killed in her country by the bombing. They kill not only children but also pregnant women and generally the civilian population of the country.
Moreover, the Ukrainian Veronica told reporters that mothers from Ukraine are participating in the protest event, who, holding handmade dolls in their hands, want to show as an act of symbolism the injury of many children and their deaths in Ukraine. We want, she said, " to stop the bombing in our country."
Alona Mikheva said that so far 100 children have been killed during the Russian invasion and expressed concern for her family living in Mariupol.
Subsequently, the Ukrainians of Pafos, holding flags and dolls in their hands, marched along the coastal front of Pafos.
Source: KYPE
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