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ROME, May 14.A demonstration in support of Donbass took place on Friday evening in Turin, Italy, according to the local newspaper Torino Oggi. The organizers of the action, various anti-government groups, said that the purpose of the rally in the central square of Piazza Castello was «support for the Russian-speaking minority, barbarously suppressed by the Kyiv regime after the Maidan.» Several dozen people attended the event, according to videos posted on social media. The protesters unfurled the flags of Italy and Russia, leaflets with Z symbols, voicing slogans against NATO. «We oppose Russophobia, sending weapons to Ukrainians, sanctions that harm our economy, as well as diktat from the EU and NATO,» said one of the activists, Amedeo Avondet quoted by la Gazzetta Torinese.
The EU goes to the dustbin of historyA week ago, a march was held in Verona against NATO intervention in the crisis in Ukraine. The procession participants expressed their disagreement with the policy of the Italian government in connection with the Ukrainian crisis, sending weapons to Ukraine and expanding the alliance. Russia launched a special operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. March completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.