Support for Ukraine

Photos of the ongoing support and memorials for Ukraine in Washington, D.C.

Week of March 21st-27th

Rally at the Lincoln Memorial, 3/27

©Victoria Pickering
Ukrainian Ambassador Markarova. ©Victoria Pickering
©Rob Klug
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. ©Victoria Pickering
©Rob Klug


Chalk hearts by the cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin

Week of March 14th-20th

Rally at the White House, March 20th

Rally at the White House, March 18th


The Barbie Pond on Avenue Q, an iconic D.C. spot with scenes of both humor and heartache, this week displays support for Ukraine:

The Katzen Arts Center at American University is lit in blue and yellow.

©Victoria Pickering

Members of Congress come to the Capitol to hear President Zelensky’s speech delivered remotely, on 3/16/22:

©Victoria Pickering

Week of March 7th – 13th

Vigil at the White House, March 13th

People came to the White House to support Ukraine and to leave tributes to memorialize the lives lost:

©Miki Jourdan
©Victoria Pickering
©Victoria Pickering
©Miki Jourdan

Activists have put up a new street sign in front of the Russian Embassy gates.

©Victoria Pickering

A 60-foot Ukrainian flag on the Glover Park Hotel, directly across from the Russian Embassy on Wisconsin Avenue:

©Victoria Pickering

Tributes continue to be added by the front of the Ukrainian Embassy:

Many embassies have put up the Ukrainian flag:

Embassy of Croatia. ©Victoria Pickering
©Embassy of Latvia. ©Victoria Pickering
©Embassy of Luxembourg ©Victoria Pickering

Week of February 28th – March 6th

Rally by the White House – March 5th

In front of the White House. ©Victoria Pickering
©Victoria Pickering
©Victoria Pickering
©Rob Klug

©Victoria Pickering

White House, March 2

©Rob Klug

At the Russian Embassy on Wisconsin Avenue, a few demonstrators can be found there throughout the days and nights.

Nighttime protestor at the Russian Embassy. ©Victoria Pickering

Lit in Blue and Yellow

Many buildings across D.C. are showing their support by being lit in blue and yellow.

Embassy of Canada, Pennsylvania Avenue. ©Miki Jourdan
Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge. ©Miki Jourdan
Kennedy Center ©Victoria Pickering
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. ©Miki Jourdan
The Anthem at The Wharf. ©Miki Jourdan

Belgian Ambassador’s residence. ©Victoria Pickering
©Victoria Pickering

Holodomor Memorial

The Holodomor Memorial, at 2 Massachusetts Avenue, commemorates the lives lost in the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933, considered a genocide caused by the Soviet government.

©Victoria Pickering

Flags on Pennsylvania Avenue

The lampposts along Pennsylvania Avenue always display the American and D.C. flags, and for decades, the Federal and D.C. governments have coordinated to add a country flag when heads of state visit. This week, the Ukrainian flag has been added.

©Victoria Pickering
©Rob Klug
©Rob Klug

Week of February 21st-27th

White House, February 24th

Protestors came to the White House shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine.

©Victoria Pickering

White House, February 26th

Protests continued each day outside the White House.

©Miki Jourdan

©Miki Jourdan

White House, February 27th

©Rob Klug
©Rob Klug
©Rob Klug

©Rob Klug

Embassy of Ukraine

Outside the Embassy of Ukraine on M Street.

©Victoria Pickering
©Rob Klug
@Rob Klug

©Victoria Pickering

©Rob Klug

Embassy of Russia

Small groups of protestors are constantly on the sidewalk outside the Russian Embassy.

©Victoria Pickering
©Victoria Pickering

©Victoria Pickering


Week of February 14th-20th

Lincoln Memorial, February 20th

A few days before Russia invaded Ukraine, there was a Stand with Ukraine rally and the Vigil to Commemorate the Heavenly Hundred/Nebesna Sotnia (the Fallen Heroes of the 2013-14 Revolution of Dignity) at the Lincoln Memorial.

Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine ©Miki Jourdan
©Victoria Pickering
©Miki Jourdan
©Victoria Pickering

©Miki Jourdan