RALEIGH, N.C. — A rally was held in Raleigh Thursday to support those in Ukraine.
Signs were held up saying, “Help Ukraine to stop the war” and “We today are all Ukraine.”
Olena Kozlova-Pates was one of the organizers and said there were close to 100 people at the capitol for the rally.
They sang the Ukrainian National Anthem.
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops and tanks from three sides in an attack that could rewrite the global post-Cold War security order. Ukraine’s government pleaded for help as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee.
Scores of Ukrainians, civilians and service members alike, were killed in the first full day of fighting, and the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv appeared to be increasingly threatened. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the government had information that “subversive groups” were encroaching on the city, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Kyiv “could well be under siege.”