{"id":9060,"date":"2023-02-24T17:49:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T17:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=9060"},"modified":"2023-02-24T17:49:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T17:49:52","slug":"ukraine-flag-russian-embassy-activists-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=9060","title":{"rendered":"Activists paint a giant Ukrainian flag outside the Russian Embassy in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><imgsrc=\"\" alt=\"A cyclist passes over a giant Ukrainian flag painted over the Russian Embassy in London. Caption reads: Colored Activism\"><\/p>\n<p>The road of the Russian Embassy in London was painted with the colors of the Ukrainian flag on Thursday. Marking the eve of the one-year anniversary since Russia\u2019s full-scale war on Ukraine, Led By Donkeys, originally an anti-Brexit art and activist group, poured hundreds of liters of blue and yellow paint on Bayswater Road to remind Russian president Vladimir Putin that Ukraine is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByDonkeys\/status\/1628702808122818561?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201c\u2018an independent state\u00a0\u00a0and a people with every right to self-determination.<\/a>\u201d Since then, a section of Bayswater Road has been renamed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-64756620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyiv Road<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Feb. 24 marks a year since Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/news\/press\/2023\/2\/63f78c0a4\/unhcr-year-russian-invasion-insecurity-clouds-return-intentions-displaced.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>displaced over 13 million people<\/u><\/a> and caused over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/news\/2023\/02\/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-13-february-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>18,000 civilian casualties.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The road of the Russian Embassy in London was painted with the colors of the Ukrainian flag on Thursday. Marking the eve of the one-year anniversary since Russia\u2019s full-scale war&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-technology","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}