欧米各地でウクライナ支持デモ　ロシア侵攻開始から２年

【ベルリンＡＦＰ＝時事】ロシアによるウクライナ侵攻が始まってから２年となる２４日、欧米各地でウクライナを支持するデモや集会が行われた。（写真は、独首都ベルリンで行われたウクライナを支持するデモ）
　ドイツ、英国、フランスなど各国の首都や主要都市に集まった参加者らは青と黄色のウクライナ国旗を掲げ、ロシアのウラジーミル・プーチン大統領に向けて侵攻を停止するよう声を上げた。
　独ベルリンのデモに参加したウクライナ人女性のワレリアさん（３２）は、「世界各地で起きていることを考えるとウクライナだけ支援するのは難しいと思う」としつつ、「それでも私たちはまだそこにいて耐え続けている。支援が必要なことを世界に伝えたい」と述べた。
　英ロンドンでは、市内中心部のトラファルガー広場へと多数の参加者が行進した。ウクライナ人女性のタニアさん（５４）は「毎日、命が失われている。残念なことに欧米諸国からの兵器の支援が不足している」「約束はしてくれるが言葉だけの時もある。行動が伴わなくてはならない」と訴えた。
　ウクライナを支持する声が各地で上がる一方、欧州では、ロシアを撃退できるとの見方に陰りが見え始めている。
　欧州１２か国で先月行われた世論調査によると、ウクライナがロシアを撃退できると考えている人はわずか１０％にとどまった。一方、ロシアが勝利するとの回答は平均約２０％で、３７％は妥協点を見いだして終結すると予想した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/02/26-16:45）

Protesters rallied across Europe Saturday in support of Ukraine on the second anniversary of Moscow's invasion, urging greater Western backing as fears mount about Kyiv's ability to fend off an emboldened Russia.
Crowds gathered in Berlin, London, Paris and other European cities, waving the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag and demanding that Russian President Vladimir Putin put an end to the war.
When Putin sent his forces into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it brought conflict back to Europe for the first time in decades, a geopolitical earthquake that sent shockwaves across the world.
With concerns growing about waning support from Ukraine's allies as an emboldened Moscow makes battlefield gains, there were calls at a protest at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate for accelerated arms deliveries.
Addressing thousands of supporters, some waving banners that read arm Ukraine now, Berlin mayor Kai Wegner decried Putin's brutal war of aggression.
He wants to wipe out Ukraine, he wants to wipe out the identities of Ukrainians, he told the crowd, which organisers estimated at 10,000-strong while police gave a figure of 5,000.
But we won't let that happen.
He called on Berlin to deliver long-range Taurus missiles long sought by Kyiv, a demand the German government has so far refused for fears they could also strike inside Russia.
Valeria Zhylenko, a 32-year-old Ukrainian at the rally, recognised it was more difficult now to support only Ukraine due to other crises happening around the world.
But she added: I want to remind the world that we are still here, we are resisting... we still need this support.
In London, thousands of protesters marched to Trafalgar Square, waving banners that read world support Ukraine, and Russia is a terrorist state.
Every single day people are dying, and the West is not supplying enough... weaponry, unfortunately, said Tania Zubashenko, a 54-year-old Ukrainian.
They promise, but sometimes it's only words. We need real actions.
- 'Ukraine defending values' -
Protests took place across France, with several thousand joining a march in central Paris, with shouts of Putin murderer and Russia out of Ukraine ringing out from the crowd.
In the city of Rouen, mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol told a crowd of several hundred that Ukraine is defending its sovereignty but also its values and ideals, which are those of Europe.
Europe is at war -- we cannot remain on the sidelines of this battle.
More than 1,000 protesters gathered in Warsaw -- the capital of Poland, Ukraine's neighbour and a key ally -- in front of the Russian embassy, waving Ukrainian flags.
The demonstrators put up crosses with the names of victims of Russia's war, as well as models of buildings destroyed in Russian bombings.
Demonstrations took place in numerous other cities across Europe, including Dublin, Athens, Stockholm and Milan.
At the Stockholm rally, Maryana Kostiv, a 22-year-old Ukrainian from Lviv, told AFP that she hoped for Ukraine to win the war.
Everything will end and all the Ukrainians can go back to Ukraine and start to live their normal lives again. That's all that I hope for, she told AFP.
Despite the show of support across the continent on Saturday, Europeans are becoming increasingly worried about Ukraine's faltering efforts to fend off Moscow.
According to a survey released last week, only 10 percent of Europeans believe Ukraine can defeat Russia on the battlefield.
The survey conducted last month across 12 EU countries showed that on average 20 percent of those asked believed Russia could win, and 37 percent thought the conflict would end in a compromise settlement.