While it's not sure whether Putin will triumph his mission of conquering Ukraine through the ongoing invasion, what's sure is that the image of the longest-serving Russian leader has severely got damaged across and beyond Russia. Being one of the most powerful leaders on the globe, Putin has always been under some sort of protest for oppressing dissidents and opposition leaders in his country. Now, through invading Russia, Putin has spurred global outrage against him. 

Friday - February 25 has marked day two of the Russian invasion into Ukraine and within hours of the invasion, Putin's forces had captured several cities in Ukraine and killed hundreds of people. As the Russian troops advance, outrage against Putin hits multiple shores. Besides several world leaders, hundreds of thousands of the general public have been protesting against the Russian invasion across the world. Significantly, Russia had seen protests in its own country with the Russian police arresting thousands of protesters in a day. 

The agitation against Moscow has been rampant. Protesters had gathered before the Russian Embassies in several global cities including New York, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv. Hundreds of people had gathered before the White House in Washington with Ukrainian flags to condemn the Russian invasion along with the US government. The protesters were chanting "Stop Russian aggression." 

According to Reuters, hundreds of demonstrators, many of them are Ukrainians, had gathered outside 10, Downing Street, the official residence of the British Prime Minister in London. They had urged the British government to give more pressure on Russia to stop the war. A protestor said, "We need help, we need someone to support us. Ukraine is too small and the pressure is too big." One protestor told Reuters in Paris, "I feel that we are in a very dangerous moment for the whole world."

In the Swiss capital of Bern, hundreds had gathered holding Ukrainian flags and chanting "Peace for Ukraine!". A demonstration has held in the Swiss city of Geneva and it was organized by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons outside the UN European Headquarters and the body has condemned Putin's threat to use nuclear weapons. 

Ukrainians living across the world are taking part in these protests as the global solidarity unprecedently grows for Ukraine. Several protests were planned in the US, in the cities of Houston and Denver. A giant Ukrainian flag was carried through Times Square in New York City to show a wave of support for Ukraine. On the other side of the globe, major cities in Australia have been expressing solidarity for Ukraine. Flinders Street Station in Melbourne was lit in yellow and blue - the national colours of Ukraine. 

Australia is one of the countries that supported imposing sanctions against Russia and in the city of Sydney, hundreds of protesters had come to the streets and raised slogans to stop the war. There were different slogans across the world but all of them had pointed towards one man - Vladimir Putin. The wordings like 'I'm ashamed to be Russian. Stop the war', 'Today Ukraine, Tomorrow you, pls stop the war', 'Putin, keep hands off Ukraine', 'Russian do not support war', 'Get out Putin', 'No war, Peace for Ukraine', 'Free Ukraine, Putin is ugly' and 'Stand with Ukraine', have been occupying the globe. 

Furthermore, there are several banners and cartoons that compared Putin with Adolf Hitler. They were filled with the slogan 'Stop Adolf Putin'. What has become more trouble for Putin is growing protests against him in his own country. In Russia, protesters had turned down the official warning that threatened criminal prosecution and even imprisonment for taking part in protests. Hundreds of Russians rallied in cities including Moscow, St Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg and they chanted the slogan "No to War!". 

This is not a ‘meme’, but our and your reality right now.

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