Here's how Manchester commemorated the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine including a march to Piccadilly Gardens and a press conference with Mayor Andy Burnham.
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00:00 [crowd chanting]
00:15 Free Mariupol defenders!
00:26 We're going round the back!
00:33 Free Mariupol defenders!
00:42 [crowd chanting]
01:07 Glory to Ukraine!
01:27 Glory to Ukraine!
01:31 So it was clear from the start that people in Ukraine felt that this was an attack on the very existence of the country.
01:40 And obviously it's been spoken of in those terms by Putin and those around him.
01:47 The determination to try and wipe out Ukraine.
01:52 As Petro said, they have not achieved their expectations.
01:57 And we're confident because of the strength of the Ukrainian people, they won't.
02:02 However, I think what it has given rise to is a kind of sense that it is an attack on the Ukrainian identity.
02:08 And there's been a call from the community for past injustices to be recognised as well.
02:15 Particularly Holodomor, which was a prolonged and widespread attack on the Ukrainian people in the 1930s, early 1930s, by Stalin's Russia.
02:33 Which led to the death of, I believe it's estimated, between 3.5 and 7 million Ukrainians.
02:41 Almost unimaginable loss of life on such a huge scale.
02:47 So the appeal came to us from our community here that we should add our voice as Greater Manchester to the call to recognise Holodomor as a genocide.
02:59 And to recognise the 4th Saturday of November as a World Day of Remembrance for Holodomor.
03:08 Now this has not been fully recognised internationally by the United Nations or the EU yet.
03:15 But there is a groundswell of support for the call that has been made.