At the Cannes Film Festival, everyone was shocked when a Ukrainian woman took herself topless to express her protest against Russian soldiers. On Friday, the woman walked onto the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival with the words “Stop raping us” on her body painted the color of the Ukrainian flag and protested against Russian soldiers.
At that time the red carpet premiere of George Miller’s ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ was taking place, when this woman suddenly appeared on the red carpet. In a hurry, the security personnel reached there and covered the woman’s body with a coat. During this, he stopped everyone from taking a picture of the woman and making a video of that incident.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last month investigators had received reports of hundreds of rapes in areas held by Russian troops. He also talked about sexual harassment of young children. The Russo-Ukraine war has been in the limelight at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
Actor-turned-politician Zelensky also made a video appeal to help his country at the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday. During his emotional address, he called upon the filmmakers to face dictators. War has already been a major theme at Cannes with the special screening of “Mariopolis 2”. Several films by Ukrainian filmmakers are being screened here.
Russia has been continuously attacking Ukraine for the past two months. After so much time has passed, this fight is not taking the name of stopping. At the same time, Ukraine does not appear to be giving up in front of this attack of Russia. More than two months have passed but still this fight has not reached any conclusion. Russia is also facing many sanctions regarding this war.