Leaving from Place Masséna, the procession of 200 people, who had braved terrible weather, symbolically went to Place de la Liberation an hour after its departure.
“We are here for two things, the withdrawal of the Russian army from Ukraine and the investigation of the war crimes that have been committed“, explained Taras Ostapchuk, vice-president of the Franco-Ukrainian Association of the Côte d’Azur.
“The coming weeks will be the hardest because the Russian offensive has begun, it was time to call for more solidarity, we must continue to mobilize until the tyranny stops“, estimated this 39-year-old sales engineer installed, like a thousand of his compatriots before the start of the war, on the Côte d’Azur.
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“I see a lot of new faces, there are refugees, people came despite the rain, it’s encouraging“, observes Iryna Podyryako, 42, president of this association: “Here, the reception of refugees is going quite well, but we are worried about the situation in Ukraine. We had hoped that the war would end quickly, but now we see that it’s gone for months or even years“, dreads this expatriate employed in the region as a graphic designer.
To the Ukrainians of Nice were joined simple Niçois but also Chechens, very numerous on the Côte d’Azur. “We are the witnesses of this inhuman war, but the Ukrainians are not Nazis, as Russian propaganda presents them. We too are victims of Russia, we feel concerned“, testified Mourad, 49, a political refugee in Nice since 2000.
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The region of Nice is one of those which, in France, has received the most Ukrainian refugees since the start of the war on February 24, according to the prefecture of Alpes-Martitimes. As of April 21, 5,079 temporary residence permits had been issued by this prefecture to Ukrainian nationals benefiting from the temporary protection granted by France.
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