MADRID (Sputnik) — Dozens of artists from different countries gathered for an artistic event in Madrid on Saturday, commemorating victims of the 2014 massacre in Ukraine's southern city of Odessa.
"We met to remember the tragic events of May 2, 2014. A year later, the perpetrators still have not been punished. In this way, artists, musicians, poets, actors, the people of art, express their condemnation of these terrible events," one of the event organizers, Vera Rodionova, told Sputnik.
Homenaje en Madrid a las víctimas de la masacre de Odessa en su primer aniversario http://t.co/Y2koyBUfNq #Odessa pic.twitter.com/rJoaqbWJMj
— DISO Press (@DisoPress) May 2, 2015
The organizers plan to hold more events in Paris and Berlin, then probably in other European cities, according to Rodionova. The permanent exhibition will be eventually placed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
In Kharkov colored fountains in the color of blood in memory of those killed in #Odessa House of trade unions pic.twitter.com/mFYhI7H171
— Victor Kuhnovets (@vicktop55) May 2, 2015
Commemorative events were also held in Barcelona and Valencia.
On May 2, 2014, at least 48 anti-government protesters died and over 200 were injured during clashes with pro-Kiev radicals and Right Sector militia and in a blaze while being blocked in the trade unions building in Odessa.
Grandfather mourning his grandson Vadim Tapura killed in #Odessa massacre. pic.twitter.com/KYp3nMWZoe
— Cold War 2.0 (@coldwar20_en) May 2, 2015
#Odessa was the most horrifying experience of my career. Possibly, my life pic.twitter.com/da4Zuwzm7Y
— Irina Galushko (@IrinaGalushkoRT) May 2, 2015
Despite Russia's calls to conduct a prompt and transparent investigation into the Odessa tragedy, Ukraine authorities still have not completed the inquiry.
A year since the #Odessa massacre, the victims are remembered, but the perpetrators are free. #одесса #одессахатынь pic.twitter.com/XsJWNpsFcB
— Nina Byzantina (@NinaByzantina) May 2, 2015
2 MAY 2014 100 #ODESSA WORKERS BURNED ALIVE by #Ukraine fascists http://t.co/0jvP4fTEL1 http://t.co/oeheBc4tWV #Svpol pic.twitter.com/0VkCGDPAq5
— Prof Ferrada de Noli (@ProfessorsBlogg) May 2, 2015
