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Anti-Putin Protests In London

February 17, 2022 12:33 IST

Please click on the images for glimpses of the pro-Ukrainian demonstration in London on Wednesday, February 16, 2022, as the United States warned of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

IMAGE: Placards with messages for Russia's president at the demonstration.
All photographs: Henry Nicholls/Reuters

 

IMAGE: Demonstrators hold Ukrainian flags.

 

IMAGE: A Russian invasion of Ukraine can happen anytime now, the White House said on Wednesday as President Joe Biden announced plans to dispatch Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony J Blinken to attend the Munich conference to meet world leaders and unite them against Moscow.

 

IMAGE: Another message for the Kremlin's current czar.

 

IMAGE: A protestor attaches a banner to a lamp post displaying a clear message to Vladimir Vladimirovich.

 

IMAGE: A reporter reports from the scene of the demonstration, which was held at Whitehall, opposite Downing Street, where British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak (and his wife Akshata, Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy's daughter) live.

 

IMAGE: Demostrators post 'Stop Putin war' posters on the walls.

 

IMAGE: One protestor holds the anarcho-syndicalism (Wikipedia says 'Anarcho-syndicalism is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence in broader society') flag while another holds the Ukrainian flag.

 

 

Photographs curated by Manisha Kotian/Rediff.com
Feature Presentation: Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com

 
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