The initiative to protest came from Ronny Cuyt from Mol. “We also want to make it clear to the people who pass here that such a Russian store is really not allowed here, while the motherland is causing such misery in Ukraine. The fact that money flows from Flanders to Russia really bothers me.”
One of the Ukrainian refugees is 32-year-old Kseniia Hlava. “I now live here in Flanders with my mother, while part of the family still resides in Kiev,” she says. “We are waiting for the end of the war to be able to return. But that such a Russian store is now allowed to open a branch in Flanders is very strange. And it is even more strange that Flemish people do their shopping there. They should just be mad at Russia for rising oil and food prices.”
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