Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, our NGO has organised 60+ theme-related "performances", events and activist initiatives to attract the media's and general public's attention to the war in Ukraine and the needs of those affected. We have also created several large fundraising events and social media projects.
Check out our media campaign in support of Ukrainian POWs, with over 400,000 views.
28 July 2024
Whilst the Olympic games took place in Paris, some of the Russian-born athletes showed their support of the war on social media. We made a "performance" against such injustice. While Ukrainian athletes were dying at the front lines (487 athletes died as of that date), russians were allowed to compete. We were joined by a talented young Ukrainian-born athlete, Halyna Malenko.
7 July 2024
Our hearts were shattered as russia launched a brutal attack on Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, the biggest Children's hospital in Europe, including it's cancer ward. Innocent lives, the lives of our children, were ruthlessly endangered, many were injured. This was not just an attack on Ukraine, it was an attack on humanity itself.
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16 June 2024
This week Ukraine was in the center of the world’s attention - Berlin Recovery Conference, meeting at the NATO headquarters, G7 in Italy and the Global Peace Forum in Switzerland. We gathered to remind the world about Ukrainian POWs held in russia and the need for their immediate release.
9 June 2024
Organised by Support Ukraine every year, this is a march across London in "vyshyvankas" traditional Ukrainian attire. Our team joins every year since 2022. This year we brought giant "receipts" to symbolise all the damage caused by russia.
19 May 2024
This date marked two years since the last defenders of the Azovstal steel plant surrendered following an order. Most of them remained in russian captivity for two years at that point, having to go through inhumane treatment.
14 April 2024
This date marked two years since Ukrainian marines from 36th brigade remained in russian captivity. We were joined by two Ukrainian marines, Oleksii Rudenko and Heorhii Roshka, who both lost their limbs in combat and Heorhii survived captivity. Our "performance" used half-empty tables with those who are waiting for their loved ones from the Russian captivity.
24 February 2024
Together with Support Ukraine and other organisations, we marched from Marble Arch to Trafalgar Square to mark the 2nd anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Our team held a giant "receipt" (original idea and design by Make Russia Pay) to highlight the unquantifiable damages caused by Russian invasion. Anna, our director, made a speech at the main demonstration about the children of war and the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia. Our team was featured in media headlights.
18 February 2024
This demonstration marked 1,5 years since the Olenivka tragedy, where russia brutally killed Ukrianian POWs. We reminded the world that russia needs to pay for its crimes.
22 December 2024
We celebrated the Unity Day of Ukraine organised by Support Ukraine London, which is traditionally celebrated every 22nd of January since 1919. On January 22, 1919, the Unification Act was proclaimed, joining the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic into a single, independent state. People hold hands to symbolise unity.
14 Janurary 2024
Our team recreated in central London a makeshift memorial for the fallen soldiers, similar to the one at Maidan Square in Kyiv. Each flag symbolises a fallen hero; there are thousands of young beautiful lives, taken by ruzzia. Portraits of some of our heroes were displayed facing Downing Street.
7 Janurary 2024
We joined our friends from Support Ukraine London for the first pro-Ukrainian rally of 2024 as there were heavy attacks on Ukraine during Christmas and New Year.
17 December 2023
Together with other organisations, including British Ukrainian Aid and the children's choir, our team sang traditional Ukrainian Christmas Carols at Trafalgar Square. This was highlighted by the BBC and our director, Dariya, gave an interview about the importance of this.
19 November 2023
This performance was aimed at highlighting russia's bloodfirst and crimes against humanity and to call upon the world to help Ukraine stop the russian terror.
30 September 2024
We stood by London's historic landmarks to remind the world that the brave defenders of Azovstal had spent 500 days in russian captivity, being tortured.
10 July 2023
We joined the initiatives of other organisations in support of Ukraine becoming the 33rd member of NATO.
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2 July 2023
The association of the families of Azovstal defenders took part in this rally organised by Support Ukraine. We created a performance to show russia's inhumane treatment of POWs. We were joined by Olesya Melnichenko, an ex-POW, who had spent 7 months in russian captivity; she delivered a powerful speech, appealing to the world community for the immediate release of POWs.
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2 July 2023
For the second year we celebrated this traditional Slavic holiday in central London, exploring Ukrainian culture, making traditional wreaths and recreating ancient traditions and rituals, involving fire and water. This was photographed by Guy Cobishley and featured at the Times.
10 June 2023
When russia blew up the Nova Kahovka dam – we considered it to be one of the largest deliberate acts of ecocide in human history, flooding civilian homes, and killing thousands of animals. Together with a charity UA Animals, we created a campaign to bring attention to the problem of ecocide and the need to evacuate animals and humans.
20 May 2023
We reminded the world that a year had passed since the brave defenders of Mariupol had been in russian captivity. Russia promised to release them but kept them in inhumane conditions.
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23 April 2023
Vesnianky and haivky are ancient Slavic traditional type of spring dances and songs performed in Ukraine after Easter to celebrate spring and reincarnation. This event was lead by our Ivanka, who spoke about Ukrainian culture and recreated Haivky in central London.
At the end, we met Roman Kashpur, a Ukrainian soldier, who ran the London marathon after loosing his leg in combat. His aim was to raise funds for British Ukrainian Aid.
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1 April 2023
This was an initative by many organisations that we participated in and promoted. We encouraged the UN to remove russia from its security council, especially since in the UN Charter, russia was only a permanent member as part of the Soviet Union.
25 March 2023
We marched together with our partnering organisation, Stage of Freedom, ran by Iranian women, who stand against the Islamic Regime in Iran and against IRGC, who execute and imprison Iranians and supply weapons to russia to kill Ukrainians.
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11 March 2023
A video emerged of a Ukrainian POW Oleksandr Matsievskyi being executed for saying "Slava Ukraini" (Glory to Ukraine). We "recreated" this event in central London to draw the public's attention to russian war crimes.
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24 February 2023
Together with Support Ukraine and other organisations we stood outside the russian embassy to mark 1st anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This tragic "anniversary" and our performance was featured in many media outlets.
24 February 2024
Mike Ashley (the owner of Agent Provocateur) as of this date continued to do business with russia and refused to comment on it. We protested outside the AP store, whilst Daily Mail reported this.
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22 January 2023
We celebrated the Unity Day of Ukraine, which is traditionally celebrated every 22nd of January since 1919.
On January 22, 1919, the Unification Act was proclaimed, joining the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic into a single, independent state. This day has traditionally been associated with images of people holding hands to form living chains, representing a strong and united Ukraine.
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17 December 2022
This demonstration was together with our friends from Support Ukraine Ltd and UA Animals charity. We highlighted the ecological problems brought by russia’s war against Ukraine including animals being affected. In Ukrainian culture, Vertep is a portable puppet theatre and drama, which presents the nativity scene People dress up as animals, angels, kings and the devil, to symbolise the day when Jesus was born.
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11 December 2022
This year, we joined our friends from British Ukrainian Aid and Support Ukraine Ltd, as well as talented singers and children from the Ukrainian School in London to sing the traditional Ukrainian Christmas Carols and show the Londoners our traditions. Photos taken by Guy Corbishley were featured at the Times.
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16 November 2022
Russia has been taunting Ukraine, killing civilians, specifically targeting residential buildings, hospitals, schools, historic sights and infrastructure. We asked the world to stop staying silent and to recognise that Russia is a terrorist state.
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23 October 2022
Ukraine was being attacked by Iranian "Shahed -136" drones, provided by Iran while russian troops were advancing from Belarus. They destroyed infrastructure facilities and housing and killed civilians. We protested against the triple alliance of Russia, Belarus and Iran, demanding the civilised world to stop them!
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10 October 2022
Our team stood in tears of fake blood to show that the world is choosing to close its eyes to russia’s was crimes and atrocities. Our eyes and hearts were "bleeding" after seeing the horrific photos and videos of the attacks in Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv and Dnipro.
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1 October 2022
After the Ukrainian city of Izyum was liberated from the russians, we found out the horrific history. 447 bodies were found in Izyum mass grave. Mainly women, there were also 6 children. Our performance aimed to highlight the crimes committed by russia.
24 August 2022
Together with Support Ukraine Ltd, we took part in organising Ukrainian Independence Day. Our team used this opportunity to bring attention to POWs and their immediate release. We also showed the British public what Ukraine brings to the world - it's the largest grain exporter in Europe, the tallest building in London (the Shard) was built from Ukraine’s steel at Azovstal steel plant, etc.
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14 August 2022
During the 2022 russian invasion of Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has become the center of an ongoing nuclear safety crisis, an act of nuclear terrorism by Russia. The plant, which is the largest of its kind in Europe, has seen destruction of its infrastructure via shelling, damage to its power lines, amounting to the largest situation of its kind in history. We wanted to bring the world’s attention to a potential nuclear disaster in Ukraine.
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30 July 2022
The massacre of Azovstal defenders, who were kept as POWs in Olenivka prison was an act of execution by russia. About 40 POWs died as a result and 130 were wounded. Our performance aimed to highlight russia's war crimes and demand prosecution.
24 July 2022
Our team greeted the runners, who took part in the charitable marathon “Freedom run” in support of Ukraine and supported the beginning of a challenge by Olga Stignii, who started running 31 kilometres for 31 days to mark 31 years of Ukraine’s independence.
16 July 2022
Russia launched a missile attack on Vinnytsia and Mykolaiv. The whole world saw photos of children’s toys covered in blood. At least 20 people, including three children, were killed in the attack. Four-year-old Lisa, a girl with Down's syndrome, who was walking with her mother died. The mother was heavily injured. We stood against this brutal attack.
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6 July 2022
Ivana Kupala is a traditional Slavic holiday. It celebrates the summer solstice and is commonly associated with a number of rituals such as herb collecting and bathing in the river. In 2022 our team celebrated it in London to promote our culture and traditions. This was photographed by Guy Cobishley and featured at the Times.
2 July 2022
Our team, followed by the Ukrainian delegation was leading the London Pride in 2022. For the first time in 50 years, Ukrainian delegation had joined Pride Parade. Thanks to our friends from Support Ukraine Ltd and Ukraine Pride, who worked very hard to make this happen. This was widely publicised in the world media.
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25 June 2022
We stood with bags over our heads, covered in fake blood and with our hands tied behind our backs to symbolise russia's mistreatment of the prisoners of war. We demanded release of prisoners of war and especially the brave defenders of Azovstal steel plant, who are particularly abused by russia.
11 June 2022
A demonstration against the Hungarian government's policy of blocking EU support aid to Ukraine and blocking ministerial-level political meetings between NATO and Ukraine. By the Hungarian embassy, we (with Support Ukraine Ltd) reminded Hungary that its own fight for democracy was brutally interrupted by soviet troops in 1956.
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4 June 2022
A demonstration to show our gratitude to Great Britain, for accepting Ukrainian refugees and supporting Ukraine in its efforts to win the war against Russia.
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22 May 2022
The March of Mothers was in support of all those Ukrainian mothers, who suffered as a result of war. Many Ukrainian mothers have their loved ones fighting at the frontlines, many lost their children, husbands or brothers. Many mothers were displaced and had to seek refuge with their children. The march was organised by Support Ukraine Ltd in collaboration with our team. This March was widely publicised by media.
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7 May 2022
A performance in support of Ukraine and its brave Armed Forces, during the extremely difficult first few months of the full-scale invasion by Russia.
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9 March 2022
This was our very first performance as a group. When we found out about what happened in the liberated areas around Kyiv region – we could not stay silent. We were all grieving and hurting because of the atrocities committed by the russian soldiers and we gathered together to raise awareness.
This was widely publicised by the world media: Reuters, Kyiv Post, the Guardian.
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