Syrians in Idlib stand by Ukraine after Russia attack
Al JazeeraMany Syrians empathise with Ukrainians given their experience of surviving Russian shelling and air raids during war in their country. Binnish, Syria – As the crisis escalates in Ukraine following Russian attacks on the country, many people in Syria – still living through war in their own country – are voicing solidarity with Ukrainians. In the city of Binnish in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, graffiti artist Aziz Al-Asmar painted a mural on a home that was destroyed in a Russian air raid to stand with the Ukrainian people after Moscow’s attack on Thursday. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ordered attacks on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting multiple cities and bases with air raids or shelling, and attacking by land and sea. Is there no one in this world who will stop Russia’s crimes and put an end to them?” Hundreds of thousands of people were killed in Syria’s nearly 11-year war with tens of millions displaced.
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