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Oleksandr Bytsko puts his arm around his wife Julia Poliakova on March 6, 2022, as hundreds of people gather in Daley Plaza to protest the violent invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The Ukrainian newlyweds had a church wedding in Kyiv in February and were on honeymoon in Egypt when the war started and were unable to return home. They arrived in Chicago three days ago. Bytsko plans to return to Ukraine in a week to fight for his country.
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Oleksandr Bytsko puts his arm around his wife Julia Poliakova on March 6, 2022, as hundreds of people gather in Daley Plaza to protest the violent invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The Ukrainian newlyweds had a church wedding in Kyiv in February and were on honeymoon in Egypt when the war started and were unable to return home. They arrived in Chicago three days ago. Bytsko plans to return to Ukraine in a week to fight for his country.
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Hundreds of people gather in Daley Plaza on March 6, 2022, to protest the violent invasion of Ukraine by Russia. A second attempt to evacuate civilians from a besieged city in southern Ukraine collapsed Sunday amid renewed Russian shelling, while Russian President Vladimir Putin turned the blame for the war back on Ukraine and said the invasion could be halted “only if Kyiv ceases hostilities.” Food, water, medicine and almost all other supplies were in desperately short supply in the besieged port city of Mariupol, where Russian and Ukrainian forces had agreed to an 11-hour cease-fire that would allow civilians and the wounded to be evacuated. But Russian attacks quickly closed the humanitarian corridor, Ukrainian officials said.