Ukrainian women at a protest march in Berlin demand that they send weapons to their country

Ukrainian women and children staged a protest demanding more weapons be sent to help their country repel the Russian invasion, on the sidelines of the Catholic Peace March on Friday.

About 200 Ukrainian women demonstrated for arms on the sidelines of the peace event within the framework of the German Catholic Conference in Stuttgart, southwest Germany.

The women carried a large blue and yellow Ukrainian flag, and some wore red shirts that looked like blood.

They demanded faster military support and assistance from Germany, which has been widely criticized for not supplying Ukraine with effective weapons since the Russian invasion in February.

Hundreds of bodies had been found in this suburb after the withdrawal of Russian forces from it in early April, and the reports and pictures of these atrocities shocked the world.

The solidarity march of the German Catholics Day Conference, in which several hundred people participated, carried the slogan "Sharing life means sharing sadness and hope." The march included the touching stories of a woman who managed to escape with her daughter from the Bucha suburb of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.

"I was leading a normal life like millions of other people in our country," said one of the participants, Ina Vetsiliva, adding that she was stuck for two weeks in a basement inside the area occupied by the Russians.

"Then my daughter and I took our fate in our own hands and ran. All we hoped was that no one would shoot us in the back while we were running away."

She added that her 14-year-old daughter was forced to run among the corpses in order to escape from her homeland, "and now I want the whole world to hear and see what is happening there, because it was possible by using weapons to prevent the deaths in Bucha."

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