“It was not my dream to become a military reporter.”

“It was not my dream to become a military reporter.”

“At the school in Lappeenranta, this Russian-speaking assistant was trying to explain things to Ukrainian children in russian, and then got absolutely furious at the kids that they couldn’t understand him. And parents couldn’t do anything about this. This is a very big issue.”

“You need to have an action plan for you and your family. Women and kids must leave the combat zone as soon as possible.”

“Stop putting Ukrainian and Russian artists together in the same projects. It’s insensitive at the very least. It brings a wrong image and parrots russian propaganda of ‘brotherhood’.”

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Organizers: Ukraina Talo, Ukrainians of Tampere, Ukrainian Association in Finland.

Thanks to Tampereen kaupunki, Original Sokos Hotel Villa and Scandic for sponsoring the event and Ukrainian World Congress for their support.

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