Russian Friends statement on Ukraine

Friends in Russia call for restraint

Friends in Russia have called for restraint by all parties in Ukraine and abstention from violence in any form in order to avoid bloodshed.  In a Monthly Meeting minute, adopted on 26 April, Friends stated that they ‘strongly oppose all possible seeds of war in ourselves and others’ and declared that ‘armed conflict as a tool of diplomacy for solving modern disputes is ineffective, futile and wrong’.

The minute continues: ‘Wars are not inevitable. War cannot be won merely by using inhumane violence. Peace has no chance of being enforced through military means. No conditions can justify armed warfare because it inevitably involves killing civilians.

‘We are for purely peaceful nonviolent activities in defence of their claims and the protection of the rights of every person, regardless of which group of the population they represent in Ukrainian society. Bloodshed divides, prayer and forgiveness unite.’

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