A year ago, on the night between February 23 and 24, the Russia invaded Ukraine giving rise to the so-called "special military operation". In reality, for 12 long months now, a bloody war has been going on that has sown only death and destruction. After about seventy years, the Old Europe it has once again found itself at the center of a terrible conflict that has generated a strong political fibrillation between the States, as well as a serious economic recession.
Stop the war in Ukraine
For the first anniversary of the outbreak of war, the people of peace mobilize with dozens of events in Italy and Europe. To coordinate the initiatives is Europe for peace, the network that brings together hundreds of civil society organizations and which last November brought almost 100 people to Rome to ask for diplomatic action by politicians to put an end to the conflict. The first event is the Perugia-Assisi night march between Thursday 23 and Friday 24 February, which ended this morning at dawn on the tomb of San Francesco. For tomorrow evening, February 25, a torchlight vigil is scheduled for the Campidoglio in Rome. In every mobilization the nodal point remains the Ukrainian population upset by a conflict that was supposed to be a 'blitzkrieg' and which has turned into a belligerent action to the bitter end.
In Bologna thousands of people are expected for the peace march scheduled for today, February 24 in the city centre. The procession organized by the Bolognese committee of Europe for peace will start at 18 from Piazza XX Settembre and end in Piazza Nettuno. After the interventions of the institutional and religious authorities there will be a minute's silence for the victims of the wars punctuated by the bells of the Arengo and the cathedral. The event will end with a bright flash mob in Piazza Maggiore that will form the word "Peace".
