Several hundred people, about 500 according to a witness on the spot, were gathered to support the Ukrainian population.
A previous demonstration already brought together hundreds of people in the streets of the capital. “We are gathered here to say that we must stop Putin, the new Hitler”, Nicolas Zharov, the president of the ‘LUkraine’ association, told the crowd on Place Clairefontaine.
The demonstrators wanted to “support the Ukrainian people”, but also to denounce “Putin’s horrible plan” and make the authorities understand that it was time to act.
Because “even if Ukraine is not part of the European Union, it is part of Europe. We all have a European spirit,” Zharov stressed. The Ukrainians, he maintains, “share the same opinions as the Luxembourgers” and like them “we want to remain what we are”. This is a reference to Luxembourg’s national motto, taken from the song ‘De Feierwon’.
In a similar manner, the Ukrainian president published a tweet on Saturday morning in which he declared that it is “a crucial moment to close the long-standing discussion once and for all and decide on Ukraine’s membership in the EU.”
