Supporters of Ukraine from across the Bay Area met outside the Ferry Building on Sunday calling for the U.S. to do more before Russia invades that Eastern European nation.
“We have friends, actually, who are in Ukraine right now and they were just so happy to hear about the rally that’s going on here,” said Julia Rodgers, a San Mateo resident who was born in the U.S. although her mother is from Ukraine. “We morally support Ukraine, it’s not enough when you are such an influential nation yourself.”
“We find this absolutely disgusting that the world does not stand up to Putin in the way it should and stop Russian war in Ukraine,” Nick Bilogorskiy, a leader of the local nonprofit Nova Ukraine. “I am angry and I am anxious. I’m worried for my family in Kharkiv and I’m worried for all the families of Ukrainians that will need to evacuate.”
“It’s not very correct to stand by and let a smaller country be bullied by a larger country, irrespective of the challenges internally in Ukraine,” said Karthika Sasikumar, a professor of political science at San Jose State University. “We want to give Russians many, many opportunities to de-escalate because nobody wants to get into the worst-case scenario.”
“I would like to see more Americans stand up and say ‘down with Putin, we support Ukraine, we support peace!’ We cannot let him start a war,” Bilogorskiy said. “I think we need to act as if it is happening and start putting the sanctions and the pressure so that it doesn’t go unanswered.”
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