By Todd Ruiz and Nicky Tanskul
“Hands off Ukraine,” dozens of angry protesters, including Thai and Ukrainian nationals, are chanting early Friday afternoon just outside the Russian embassy in Bangkok’s Silom area.
About 40 people had assembled by 1:15pm, where they expressed anger at Russia, fear for their families back home, and hope the international community would intervene.
“My whole family lives in Ukraine, and they are very scared of [the] situation, and they have to hide from Russia’s bombs,” said Julia Bykova, who moved from Kyiv to Bangkok about a year ago.
She said Russia’s pretext for the war, the fictional persecution of Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population, has quickly melted.
“This is insane, Russia said they are going to save Russian people in Donbas, but it’s not only Donbas anymore, it is whole Ukraine. They want just…
