Yuliia Siemak, Parliament Hill, February 24, 2024
Yuliia Siemak fled her city of Mykolaiv three weeks into the invasion of Ukraine and eventually settled in Ottawa. She's pictured here participating in Saturday's rally in solidarity with Ukraine. Before she participated in Saturday's rally on Parliament Hill to mark two years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Yuliia Siemak said she was planning to scroll through her phone's camera roll — and remember the intense feelings the pictures evoked.
One photo — taken three days into the invasion — shows Siemak's "brave but terrified cat" in a library basement during a series of air raids in her region, she said. Siemak's family ultimately fled their home city of Mykolaiv two weeks later. The event remembered the dead and honoured the "resilience" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to a news release. Canadians from coast to coast were invited and embassy representatives from Denmark, Poland and Germany were expected to be there.The Ukrainian Canadian Congress organized Saturday's rally. The crowd started by singing Canada's national anthem before switching to the anthem for Ukraine.
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