“Ukrainian mothers are burying their dead and desperately searching for their stolen children. Ukrainian fathers are bleeding to death under Russian missiles. Ukraine's elderly are losing their homes in the twilight of their lives. Meanwhile the next Russian targets will be our children, our parents, our land, and the Latvian state is not halting trade with murderers,” writes the charity organisation Ziedot.lv, calling people to join the protest campaign “Stop feeding the bear!”

“Latvian businesses are sending medicines to murderers. Latvijas dzelzceļš is still ‘on the same train’ as the Russian railways. Why, after more than three years, are we still unable to cut the umbilical cord with the aggressor Russia?”

“Latvia does not need any deals with Russia! Do we want to reach 5% of GDP for defence with money we earn by trading with Russia, with money we obtain by servicing bloody transit traffic? Why are we willing to take money from murderers?”

The organisation states that it is calling on the government and the Saeima to close the borders with Russia and to ban all trade and transport with Russia.

Ziedot.lv supports the “Stop feeding the bear!” campaign and invites people to join it on 25 March at 17.00 on the A12 motorway near the Zilupe bypass.