COLOGNE - Some 2,000 mostly Russian-speaking protesters marched in the western city of Cologne on Sunday to demand Germany stop supporting Ukraine and drop sanctions it imposed after Moscow invaded its neighbour earlier this year.
"Germany is in chaos," said Ms Elena Kolbasnikova, an organiser, repeating President Vladimir Putin's assertion that Russia's invasion protects Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine.Though Germany's Russian diaspora is vast, there have been relatively few pro-Putin rallies since the start of the war. One German speaker, a baker, said high gas prices would leave him without a job by the end of the year, blaming Germany for refusing to open the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
Kremlin-linked Russian media have disputed this, saying western Europe will freeze this winter for want of Russian gas.
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