‘Yurii Sheliazhenko has consistently condemned Russian aggression as well as NATO and all other militarism’. Peace Pledge Union Photo: Yurii Sheliazhenko at Vernadsky Scientific Library
Friends uphold arrested Ukrainian pacifist
‘If I will be sent to prison for pacifism, I will find a way to be useful for peace-loving Ukraine in prison too.’
by Rebecca Hardy
18th August 2023
Quakers are upholding a Ukrainian conscientious objector whose apartment was raided by the Ukrainian authorities. He was arrested for ‘justifying Russian aggression’.
