2023-08-24 06:45:00
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The Yellow Ribbon Movement, one of the winners of the Sakharov Prize, has planned punchy actions to celebrate Ukrainian Independence Day on Thursday.
By Boris Mabillard, special envoy to Kiev In Kharkiv (Ukraine), August 22, 2023, a young girl poses with a Ukrainian flag against the background of destroyed Russian tanks to celebrate Independence Day in Ukraine, which takes place on August 24 . © Oleksandr Khomenko/NurPhoto via AFP Posted on 08/24/2023 at 06:45
Multi-colored ping-pong balls appeared miraculously, scattered here and there as the wind varied and, to its delight, carried them through the streets of Melitopol, between Zaporizhia and the Sea of Azov. It’s not a game because each bullet carries the same handwritten words of the peaceful resistance in the occupied territories of Ukraine: “Melitopol forever Ukrainian” or “Ukrainian forces are coming”.
From Lugansk to Yalta, throughout Ukraine occupied by the Russian army, anonymous civilians are taking unprecedented risks to get their message across: the population living under oppression has not given up. The Yellow Ribbon movement, one of the winners of the 2022 Sakharov Prize, mobilizes this non-violent rebellion on a virtual platform. He planned…
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