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Torchlight marches or simple street parades:

demonstrations of solidarity

with Ukraine against the Russian invasion are multiplying all over the world, from Italy to Georgia to Argentina.

In Strasbourg, headquarters of the Council of Europe, 3,100 people according to the prefecture met this Saturday with Ukrainian flags and banners proclaiming

"Putin killer" ("Putin killer") or "Stop the war."

Vladimir "Putin and his entire clique will have to pay the price for this aggression and he will have to face an international court," Borys Tarasyuk, Ukraine's permanent representative to the council, told the crowd.

Several thousand people also gathered across Switzerland on Saturday, including a thousand, according to police, in Geneva outside the United Nations headquarters in Europe, in support of Ukraine,

demanding a crackdown on Russia.

"We want peace"

Other demonstrations took place in

London, Paris and Rome.

This Saturday morning in the center of the Italian capital, a demonstration called by unions and associations gathered more than 1,000 people around a podium with the inscription: "Against the war".

The protesters brandished banners with slogans such as "Make love, not war", "We want peace"..."Stop the war".

Already the night before, thousands of people had made a torchlight march to the Colosseum.

"Putin, murderer!" could be read on some banners.

Posters showed Russian President Vladimir Putin with a blood-smeared hand on his face, or

compared him to Hitler

with the words: "Can you recognize history when it repeats itself?

"Almost 1,000 people demonstrated in Barcelona,

​​according to an estimate by the municipal police. "Today it is in Ukraine, but tomorrow it may be in other countries.

We are in contact with our parents every day because we don't know what could happen to our family," Irina Imalova, a 43-year-old Ukrainian and restaurateur in Catalonia, explained to Agence France Presse.

In London, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Russian embassy and outside the offices of Prime Minister

Boris Johnson,

waving Ukrainian flags - Ukraine is bleeding.

But it was in Georgia, a former Soviet republic, where the mobilization was particularly large on Friday night: almost 30,000 people marched in Tbilisi, waving the Ukrainian and Georgian flags and singing the anthems of both countries. The war, which according to Kiev has already caused

the death of at least 198 civilians,

it has provoked a sense of

déjà vu

in this country, which was also the victim of a devastating Russian invasion in 2008".

"We feel sorry for the Ukrainians, perhaps more than for other countries, because we have experienced the barbaric aggression of Russia on our soil," said 32-year-old taxi driver Niko Tvauri.

"The whole world must resist Putin, who wants to restore the Soviet Union,"

said Meri Tordia, a 55-year-old French teacher.

"Ukraine is bleeding, the world is watching and talking about sanctions that cannot stop Putin," she added, crying.

"Imperialist War"

In Athens, on Friday night, in front of the Russian embassy, ​​more than 2,000 people gathered at the call of the Communist Party and the radical left Syriza party.

Traditionally pro-Russian,

these parties have denounced "Russia's invasion of Ukraine"

and an "imperialist war against a people."

These demonstrations of solidarity are not limited, however, to Europe: in Montreal, Canada, dozens of people did not hesitate on Friday afternoon to brave a snowstorm to protest under the windows of the Russian Consulate General.

In Argentina, nearly 2,000 people, including Ukrainian immigrants and Argentines of Ukrainian descent, demonstrated this Friday in Buenos Aires, demanding "the unconditional withdrawal" of "assassin" Putin's troops from the

Russian embassy .

With Ukrainian flags, dressed in traditional costumes and carrying signs in Spanish, Ukrainian or English that read 'Stop the war' or 'Putin take your hands off Ukraine', the demonstrators chanted slogans in Ukrainian, such as 'Glory to Ukraine, glory to their heroes' and sang the Argentine and Ukrainian anthems.

"The Russians and the Ukrainians have a lot in common. My main feeling is anger: the last thing I imagined was that the Russians were going to come and kill my people," said Tetiana Abramchenko, 40, who came with her daughter to Argentina in 2014, after the Russian annexation of Crimea.

Tokyo, Taipei, Curitiba (Brazil), New York and Washington were also the scene of protests against the Russian invasion.

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