Russian Friends statement on Ukraine

Friends in Russia call for restraint

by The Friend Newsdesk 9th May 2014

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’.