Iran Press/ Europe: Thousands of anti-war activists and different walks of life took to the streets of London on Saturday evening along with pacifists in other European cities to protest the war in Ukraine and the warmongering policies of Western governments and NATO.
Anti-war demonstrators marched from the BBC building to Trafalgar Square, where famous anti-war figures gave speeches.
Demonstrators wanted the British government to give priority to diplomatic solutions in the Ukraine war, not to increase the military budget while prices and inflation are hiking.
Speaking to IranPress correspondent on the ground, Martin Hall, an anti-war activist and a member of the Anti-Nuclear Weapons Coalition in Britain, said: "We know that NATO is getting bigger. We learned that in the past year, the US nuclear weapons have returned to the UK, and the expansion of NATO is not only in terms of geography, but also in terms of weapons, and this is worrying."
Another British citizen said, in many European countries, people are told only one side of the story, and that is that Putin is bad and the UK and the US are good.
The Londoner stated: "We want the people of the world to be aware, we are not on any side of the war, neither Putin nor the policies of the United States and Britain. We do not support the war."
Another British citizen also said that only one side's point of view is discussed in the issue of the Ukraine war and they never go to the core of the story, what the West did to make Russia go to war.
He noted that they never say anything about the weapons that are piled in the neighboring countries of Russia and behind the borders of Russia, these cases are a kind of brainwashing and the BBC plays a role in that.
Peter Stevenson, an artist participating in the protests said: "We are very worried about nuclear war, arms race and building new nuclear weapons."
"If we continue to help Ukraine in the war, we are actually expanding the nuclear war, that's why we want the peace talks to start as soon as possible," he highlighted.
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