Talk:Protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Link dump

 * https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-russia-conflict-protests-in-berlin/g-60885890


 * https://www.reuters.com/world/protesters-stand-with-ukraine-across-united-states-2022-02-24/


 * https://www.npr.org/2022/02/24/1082816024/supporters-ukraine-protest-valery-gergiev-new-york-concert


 * https://www.marketwatch.com/story/russians-protest-ukraine-invasion-with-mass-arrests-reported-11645726398


 * https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/antiwar-activists-protest-putin-russia-ukraine-invasion/


 * https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-anti-war-protests-arrests/31721483.html


 * https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/world/europe/europe-protests-ukraine-russia.html

Victor Grigas (talk) 19:34, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Protection
Should make this article Semi-protected due to possible vandalism and misinformation. Josayo.1 (talk) 21:23, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * Pro Ukraine Protest at Russian Embasshy in Washington, D.C. (February 24, 2022).jpg

Semi-protected edit request on 26 February 2022
Remove the non-existed file in the gallery 219.78.190.217 (talk) 17:53, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Giraffer (talk·contribs) 17:56, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 February 2022
Fixed caption of the gallery image #15: Protest in Hannover, Germany. See file description on Commmons as reference 182.239.117.105 (talk) 03:55, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
 * ✔️: See this--219.78.190.98 (talk) 03:56, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Photos from Times Square
I took some photos at a rally in Times Square, NYC, yesterday and just uploaded them. I've added one to the gallery, albeit hesitantly given how large that gallery is growing. Figured I'd put a notice here with a few examples and defer to the judgment of others.

If not helpful, no worries. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 21:42, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Looks like the one I added was removed without explanation. Ah well. Deferring to others. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 21:28, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Protests in Boston
I got some article to contribute to the protest page which also includes photos

https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/02/27/bostonians-demonstrate-joining-massive-international-support-for-ukraine/

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/02/27/ukraine-russia-boston-protest/

https://www.wcvb.com/article/russia-ukraine-reaction-massachusetts-february-26-2022/39243159

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/02/24/massachusetts-ukrainian-community-and-supporters-cry-out-in-protest-against-russian-invasion

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/its-horrific-bostons-ukrainian-community-protests-russias-invasion/2654258/

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/local-rallies-grow-in-support-of-ukraine/2655900/

https://www.boston.com/news/world-news/2022/02/25/northeastern-student-plans-peace-march-as-bostons-ukrainians-watch-pray-and-protest/ --Persesus (talk) 04:29, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 February 2022
This can be added to the “Outside Russia” protests section:

On 26 February, several Freedom Convoy truckers in Chicago protest in solitary with Ukraine. 2600:387:C:7117:0:0:0:3 (talk) 16:43, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Cool guy (talk • contribs) • he/they 02:35, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

81 countries?
The infobox claims "81 countries" worldwide but I don't see this referenced in the article text anywhere. Does anyone have a good source for this claim? --N8 23:59, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 * [], :[], [] and [] Shadow4dark (talk) 05:57, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks @. I read through all four of those links and I'm still not seeing the number of countries this article claims. Each of these references claims something like "countries around the world". Somehow the number 81 seems to have been pulled out of thin air. When I counted the number of countries actually named in this article I came up short as well. I'm not suggesting 81 is necessarily wrong - that could be correct or even lower than the actual number. It just doesn't appear to match the article or come from a WP:RS that has made the count. ...at least as far as I can currently tell. --N8 13:25, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Brazil's building lit up in the Ukrainian colours
You can find two São Paulo's two buildings in homage to Ukraine: https://g1.globo.com/mundo/ao-vivo/guerra-ucrania-russia-putin-invasao.ghtml?postId=71832c19-abe0-4f5d-acac-379174ed4e8c.

If you are unable, let me know. gusbemacbe Chat Tribs 04:11, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

(Updated with English news source) February 28 Anti-Russian protests across Korea
Hello, I have an edit and update request. I have found some interesting news articles about Korean citizens protesting against the Russian invasion, some of which has lead to arrests. Could you please add this information in Section 2? Please let Ukraine know they have our hearts and support here in Korea. Thank you!

UPDATE: FOUND A NEWS SOURCE IN ENGLISH: Link

The following day on February 28th a group representing 400 Korean civic organizations staged a protest outside the Russian Embassy in Seoul saying "Russia's invasion is a violation of sovereignty and an indisputable pre-emptive attack" ("러시아의 침공은 주권 침해이자 명백한 선제 공격") and demanded an "immediate stop to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and withdrawal of troops" ("러시아의 우크라이나 침공 당장 중단 및 병력 철수") along with demands for Russia to abide by the 1994 Budapest Memorandum as well as strongly criticizing "the military-industrial complex and fossil fuel companies that have encouraged and merely spectated wars while providing the background which has allowed Russia's war criminal government to maintain its politcal power and military vigor to start wars." (“러시아 전쟁 범죄 정권에 정치적 권력을 유지하게 해 주고 전쟁을 일으킬 수 있는 군사력의 바탕을 마련해 전쟁을 조장하고 방관하는 군수산업, 화석연료 기업들을 강력 규탄한다”) The group insisted "already too many people [in Ukraine] have died, been injured, or had to say goodbye to their loved ones" ("이미 너무 많은 사람이 죽었고, 다쳤고, 사랑하는 사람과 이별했다") and "young peoeple full of dreams have been forced to confront swarms of charging tanks." ("꿈 많던 젊은이들 몰려오는 탱크를 저지하고") The protesting civic groups handed their written demands for an immediate end to the invasion in both Korean and Russian languages to the Russian Embassy.

In a separate anti-war protest in Busan on that same day, a Korean protestor tried to forcibly enter the Russian Consulate General as part of agitated demonstrations. When arrested by police the protestor claimed he was trying to "deliver objecting ideas to the war that Russia has started" (“러시아가 일으킨 전쟁에 대해 반대의사를 전달하기 위해 러시아총영사관을 찾았다”) and that he would "visit [the Russian Consulate] again" (“다시 방문하겠다”) to repeat his attempt later. Police in Busan issued a statement saying that due to the increasing frequency and rising possibility of confrontation from protestors, safety patrols around the Russian Consulate General will be increased to once per hour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.99.95.163 (talk • contribs) 20:45, 28 February 2022 (UTC)


 * It isn't clear what you are proposing exactly. Please, frame requests as "Change X to Y" or "add this thing here". &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 18:22, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Seoul City Hall lit up in support of Ukraine
Here is a lovely picture of Seoul City Hall lit up in the colors of the flag of Ukraine. From the Twitter of his excellency Dmytro Ponomarenko, Ukrainian ambassador to Korea:

https://twitter.com/DP_UA1972/status/1498618539195789316 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.99.95.163 (talk • contribs) 04:30, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
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N Seoul Tower lit up in support of Ukraine
A picture of N Seoul Tower lit up in the colors of the flag of Ukraine, reported by the Journalist Association of Korea. Roughly 7 famous landmarks across Seoul and other cities were lit up blue and yellow on March 1st in support of Ukraine.

https://www.journalist.or.kr/news/article.html?no=51104 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.99.95.163 (talk • contribs) 04:47, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
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Clarification requirement
What are the "Anti-government soldiers" and "Anti-government police officers" organisations from the conflict parties? Any reference, please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.110.66.194 (talk) 15:21, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 March 2022
This can be added somewhere in the article: On March 2, opposition leader Navalny called for more anti-war protests as well as protests against Putin. 128.163.238.18 (talk) 18:54, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅. Snowmanonahoe (talk) 19:06, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 March 2022
2022 boycott of Belarus and Russia should be listed in the see also section using bullet point form rather than listing it as a hatnote 180.219.46.240 (talk) 03:59, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
 * ✔️, see this--219.78.190.165 (talk) 17:48, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Serbia pro-Russian protest
First pro-Russian public protest, i think its worth mentioning.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-03-04/card/serbia-rally-backs-russia-in-ukraine-conflict-i5ekqpE6BmVfupK7ZUc4 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/pro-russia-serbs-march-in-belgrade-as-country-treads-ever-finer-line-between-east-and-west/47404034 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.203.106.106 (talk) 05:15, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Snowmanonahoe (talk) 12:10, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Name Change from Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine to Protests during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
I think they should have a Name Change from Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine to Protests during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine that way we could also add the Pro Russian protests.

I know they had

1. in Central African republic https://www.africanews.com/2022/03/05/pro-russia-protesters-rally-in-central-african-republic/ 2. in Montenegro https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-02-28/serb-nationalists-in-montenegro-rally-in-support-of-russia 3. in Australia https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/russiaukraine-crisis-sydneys-proputin-rally-fuelled-by-fake-bots/news-story/bc5280a670e811fa5dee30f8e1c4e03c La lopi (talk) 03:52, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 March 2022
The caption of the second last image of the gallery Buildings lit up in the Ukrainian colours was incorrect, should be US Embassy in London 182.239.85.85 (talk) 18:18, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting wait.svg Already done--182.239.85.238 (talk) 09:04, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose merging 2022 anti-war protests in Russia into this page. This article is not large, and at the same time, a lot of Russia-specific information is there rather than in 2022 anti-war protests in Russia, and having two separate articles for protests in Russia and protests in general may be confusing. --HPfan4 (talk) 04:13, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose. I think it is good that we have an article dedicated to protests in Russia. For various but obvious reasons this is quite a different topic from the protests outside Russia, and having them both discussed in one article will "water" them both. Also, while having two articles will create some amount of redundancy, these articles are way too large to be merged already, and they will continue to grow considerably. Once the war will be over there won't be very much new to say about the protests outside of Russia (except for, perhaps, the Ukrainian perspective), whereas the anti-war protests inside Russia will, regardless of the outcome of the war, become a subject of international historical research for decades (as it happened in many similar cases), so more contents for this sub-topic will emerge over the decades. "Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine" is currently at 132 KB, whereas its sub-topic "2022 anti-war protests in Russia" has even reached 156 KB. At this size, they are both subject for further splitting into identifiable sub-topics rather than merging (no, I'm not proposing this right now, but it may be already time to start thinking about which further sub-topics could be split out into separate articles once the article size has reached unbearable limits in a couple of weeks or months).
 * --Matthiaspaul (talk) 12:10, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

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Qazaqstan
Add this link. In Almaty, there was a protest against the Russian invasion and it had thousands of protesters https://www.azattyq.org/a/31738448.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.96.75.1 (talk) 04:12, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * Eiffel Tower with the colors of the Ukrainian flag (51910907690).jpg

Semi-protected edit request on 9 April 2022
Either remove the image associated with a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan or replace it with an accurate image. The current image has a memorial to Anna Politkovskya written in Polish, which most definitely does not exist in Almaty. The image can be replaced with either thumb taken by me, or by using the images from https://orda.kz/miting-v-podderzhku-ukrainy-prohodit-v-almaty/, https://vlast.kz/novosti/49018-v-almaty-prohodit-massovyj-miting-v-podderzku-ukrainy.html , https://mediazona.ca/news/2022/03/06/protest , copyright permitting. Gor154 (talk) 19:53, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thank you for your contributions. { &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 18:29, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Where can we add the infamous pro-Russia nationalist rallies?
There are two notable rallies led by Russian nationalists in Ireland (with the Z symbol at convoys) and in Germany (where it is outnumbered by pro-Ukraine protesters). The organisers claimed that it is against "Russophobia", but many of the participants also chanted nationalist slogans and support for Putin.

Where should we add these incidents? In a separate section, a separate article, or the "anti-Russian sentiment" section?

PulauKakatua19 (talk) 04:08, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

White-blue-white flag in the template
The white-blue-white flag is used almost exclusively by liberal and moderate activists. Leftists, communists, ultra-right activists do not use it Мечников (talk) 07:49, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 27 November 2022
Please put this image in Outside Russia, Protests. DinoSoupCanada (talk) 18:38, 27 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: nonsensical request. Colonestarrice (talk) 03:25, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * First off, rude. Second, elaborate. DinoSoupCanada (talk) 22:17, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * your request is not nonsensical, I'm sorry for that (please understand that a lot of people post edit requests that are solely disruptive and senseless; and at first sight your request very much looked like it was too). However, your request is evidently driven by political sentimentality, so to say, and not a desire to build an encyclopaedia. Secondly, the referenced section appears sufficiently illustrated. And lastly, you did not explain why you believe that the inclusion of this picture would improve the article in any considerable way. Colonestarrice (talk) 05:38, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
 * alright 🍁 DinoSoupCanada 🍁 (talk) 01:16, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Flower protests
The Flower protests in at least 60 cities in Russia starting from January 2023 could be mentioned here Joreberg (talk) 11:26, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Anti-War Protests in India
No such events occurred in India. Please remove India from the infobox unless a source is provided. 174.92.79.14 (talk) 13:21, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

There seem to be some source about it:

https://www.cp24.com/world/indian-students-protest-invasion-of-ukraine-1.5797336?cache=. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/protest-against-ukraine-russia-war-delhi-jantar-mantar-1921308-2022-03-06

Should i readded it?AnonymousAsian2378 (talk) 15:20, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Edit request
add the North Caucasian Protestors in the infobox 88.230.225.131 (talk) 19:13, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Pro-Russian
Why is there nothing about pro-Russian demonstrations? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.111.119.54 (talk) 14:52, 13 October 2023 (UTC)