Rally in support of Ukraine in Belgrade: 'The war has to stop'

The citizens who gathered at the Republic Square conveyed a message saying that Russia must stop attacking Ukraine as soon as possible, in order to enable a peaceful life for the people in that country. It was also stated that respect for the territorial integrity of each state is important, but that the most important thing is to stop war and aggression.

"The country is devastated, over a hundred cities no longer have access to water and electricity, about 10 million citizens of Ukraine fell into a humanitarian catastrophe, more than three million people have fled Ukraine, about six million citizens of that country have been internally displaced, thousands are dead,” said one of them.

Another participant in the gathering said that she speaks Serbian, because she is a Serbian daughter-in-law.

"In 1999, I also sat in the basement with my ten-year-old child, I know everything that the Serbian people survived, so I don't want the Ukrainian people to experience the same thing, the war simply has to stop and we will build our own country, we simply want no occupation,” she said.

Another participant in the protest, on behalf of the Belarusian people, said that the Belarusians stand with Ukraine and that they have always been and always will be.

"Belarus is currently almost under Russian occupation, but still, we are fighting,” she said.

The organisers said that they asked local governments throughout Serbia to remove the symbols of aggression related to Ukraine, that is, to remove the murals of war criminals.

Meanwhile, dozens of extreme right-wingers and fan hooligans organised a rally in the northern city of Novi Sad on Saturday night in support of Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

They headed from the Freedom Square towards the building of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, where they shouted derogatory slogans, because that party hung the flag of Ukraine at the beginning of the Russian aggression, which still stands today.