ACTIVISTS NAME STREET IN FRONT OF RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN US ZELENSKY WAY

Tue 08 March 2022:

Protesters have erected an unofficial sign announcing “President Zelensky Way” on a street near the Russian Embassy.

Of course, Ukraine’s president is Volodymyr Zelensky.

For the past two weeks, the Russian Embassy on Wisconsin Avenue in Northwest D.C. has been a gathering place for individuals protesting Russia’s incursion.

On Twitter, activist Claude Taylor wrote, “At Russian Embassy in DC … now located on President Zelensky Way.”

“We wanted to make a small, symbolic statement in support of Ukraine,” Taylor told Fox 5.

“The President Zelensky Way street sign is just our way of peacefully protesting Putin’s atrocities and honouring Ukraine,” Taylor told the Hill.

In 2018, the DC Council named the street ‘Boris Nemtsov Place’ in remembrance of the outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose killing the Kremlin denies having any part in.

Braving cold and wet weather, protesters have been gathering in the US capital since the invasion began in February. They chanted at one demonstration, “Stand with Ukraine.”

“We are terrified. All Ukrainians in Ukraine [and] here, we are terrified. We are angry, and we want action,” a Ukrainian protester named Kate told the Washington Examiner.

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