MADRID, 11 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and the acting ambassador of Ukraine, Dmytro Matiuschenko, will present this Friday (12:30 p.m.) at the Ukrainian embassy the solidarity march ‘Future Madrid x Ukraine’, which will be held on next May 28 in the capital of Spain.
The deputy mayor of Madrid, Begoña Villacís, and athletes Fernando Carro and Lucía Rodríguez, former soccer players Álvaro Arbeloa and Roberto Solozábal, former basketball player Fernando Romay and Ukrainian player Leonid Stefanyshyn and former gymnast Almudena Cid and the 9-year-old Ukrainian gymnast Miroslava Sivolainen.
The ‘Madrid Futuro x Ukraine’ initiative will turn the streets of the capital into a large Ukrainian flag on May 28 in a 5-kilometre march, organized by Madrid Futuro in collaboration with Cáritas, the Red Cross and Unicef, in which the funds raised will go to humanitarian aid in the former Soviet country and the reception of refugees.
The march is organized to show the support of the people of Madrid with Ukraine, at war since last February. The tour will begin in the Plaza de Cuzco and will have its goal next to the Neptune Fountain.