WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A group of US activists has proclaimed May 2 to be an International Day of Solidarity with Odessa and is calling on anti-fascist organizations around the world to commemorate the massacre of dozens of people that took place in Odessa in 2014, the US-based Odessa Solidarity Campaign coordinator Phil Wilayto told Sputnik.
“The Odessa Solidarity Campaign, along with many other organizations, have called for an ‘International Day of Solidarity with Odessa and Anti-Fascists in Ukraine.’ We are asking anti-fascist organizations everywhere to hold events in their city to commemorate the 7th anniversary of the Odessa massacre and also to call for an international investigation of that atrocity, something the Ukrainian government has never agreed to,” Wilayto said.
The Odessa Solidarity Campaign plans to hold a vigil on Sunday in the city of Richmond, Virginia, outside of the federal courthouse.
They also called for an independent international investigation of the Odessa massacre of May 2.
“We are also asking organizations and individuals to endorse an International Solidarity Statement that we and other organizations are promoting,” Wilayto said.
A vigil is scheduled in Moscow on May 3, they added.
Ukraine Blocks Investigation Into Massacre
Wilayto accuses the Ukrainian authorities of blocking an independent investigation into the Odessa massacre.
Fire at the Trade Union House in Odessa
At the time of the massacre, the police did not intervene to prevent the crime and the scene was never secured for an investigation, Wilayto said.
World Will Be Outraged of Reality in Ukraine
Wilayto condemned the Ukrainian authorities for their acceptance of neo-Nazi groups in the country.
March of nationalists in Ukraine
Wilayto accused nationalists organizations like the Right Sector and the Svoboda Party of participating in illegal activities and suppressing the opposition, effectively leading to the conflict in Donbas and the return of Crimea to Russia.
“I believe the world would be outraged if it knew the reality of today’s Ukraine,” he said.
The division existed until mid-1944, when it suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Brody during a major Red Army offensive aimed at expelling the Nazi forces from Ukraine and eastern Poland.
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