Several dozen people took part in a protest in downtown Sydney Sunday against action by the Ukrainian military in the country's east. The action was organized by Russian and Ukrainian descendants now living in Australia.
"People are tired of hatred," said one of the organizers, "We issued an appeal to Russians and Ukrainians living in Sydney with a proposal, namely, let's forget the things that divide us, let's get together on a platform that unites us because we all speak against war".
The the demonstation was peaceful with people carrying Russian, Ukrainian and Australian flags.
It ended with participants signing two popular Soviet-era songs, 'Katyusha' and 'May There Always Be Sunshine'.
Fighting continues in eastern Ukraine despite ceasefire - DPR leadership
The fighting continues in eastern Ukraine despite the temporary ceasefire declared by Ukrainian president Petr Poroshenko, the prime minister of the unilaterally proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said on Saturday.
"In Slavyansk, hostilities are continuing, and the Ukrainian president, Petr Poroshenko, has once again failed to keep a promise to cease fire," Alexander Borodai told during a briefing in Donetsk.
"Churches are being bombed in Slavyansk, and the zone of the so-called 'anti-terrorist operation' includes the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic as well. No humanitarian corridors have been set up," Borodai said.
The Donetsk People's Republic is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster, he said, claiming that local water supply systems are almost completely obliterated. "The pump stations are destroyed. We asked for a ceasefire in order to repair them, but the shooting went on, and two repair workers were killed and another two wounded as a result," Borodai said.
If the stations came under fire again, the whole of Donbas, a vast industrial region in eastern Ukraine, would be left without drinking water, he said. "We thought of drilling wells in Donetsk, but the subsoil waters of Donbas are undrinkable, and that means that soon there will be a tremendous flow of refugees from Donbas to the Russian Federation as there will be no supply of drinking water," Borodai said.
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