An organiser of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign speaks about his “frustration” of the current political “betrayal” around the war in the eastern European country. Referencing Russia’s “122,000 recorded war crimes” in Ukraine, Christopher Ford says “the perpetrator of these crimes could be rewarded with conquest”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00There has been in the United Kingdom widespread popular support for Ukraine, despite the efforts
00:06of some minorities, like Mr Farage and others, and Russian hybrid war to undermine popular
00:13support.
00:14But popular support has remained high.
00:17What we're seeing is there is a genuine anger and frustration that we're seeing, particularly
00:25since the Munich conference, the potential for a betrayal of Ukraine.
00:30People are quite shocked by this.
00:32That is the responses that I'm encountering.
00:35That's what's led us to call the demonstration today in many ways, the need to address the
00:39occupation.
00:41People are shocked that they're seeing countries which were previously committed to support
00:46and committed to democracy accepting the possibility that a dictatorship can invade a sovereign
00:53nation, occupy its territory, engage in 122,000 recorded war crimes, see bombing of civilians
01:02every day, of schools, of hospitals, of workplaces.
01:07People are now seeing a situation where that could be an accepted outcome, that the perpetrator
01:14of these crimes could be rewarded with conquest.
01:18People have a right to be angry about that, and a right to be frustrated.