The Ukrainian Embassy in Lithuania invited people to a rally on Cathedral Square in Vilnius on Monday evening, following airstrikes on a number of Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv.
Russia fired 84 missiles into Ukraine on Monday morning, 43 of which were shot down by air defence systems, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
“Your support is very important for Ukraine in its war against a common enemy that threatens us all,” Petro Beshta, Ukraine’s ambassador to Lithuania, told the crowd in Cathedral Square.
According to the ambassador, Russia once again showed itself to be a “terrorist country”.
“Russia and Putin are losing this war. They want to break the Ukrainians by creating chaos. But they will never break our will to be independent. We will go on to victory. We will go together with Lithuanians, it will be our common victory,” Beshta said on Monday night.
The rally was attended by Tomas Šernas, a border guard and a survivor of the Medininkai attack when Soviet troops attacked a Lithuanian border post in July 1991 and killed seven officers, conservative MP Emanuelis ZIngeris and political scientist Alvydas Medalinskas, among others.
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