Rally for Ukraine

On Saturday, February 24, members of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures joined State College community members in a rally for Ukraine to mark the second-year anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and ten years since the Russian occupation of Crimea and part of the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine. Speakers included Ezra Nanes, the mayor of State College, Oleksandr Kodola, the mayor of State College’s sister city in Ukraine, Nyzhin, Igor Latsanych, President of the Penn State Ukrainian Student Society and Svitlana Jones, local community member and organizer of the event.