With missiles and uncertainty in the air 5,000 miles away, hundreds of Ukrainians and their supporters descended on the former grounds of a world’s fair for a much graver international cause on Saturday. Against the spit of Seattle in February, a rally was held next to the Space Needle in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
It could have been a grim gathering, given the circumstances and the weather. But those in attendance mirrored the resistance of Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian comedian-turned-president whose defiant stand in Kyiv has made him a legend of the internet currently and probably, in his country, permanently.
Rallygoers chanted “slava Ukraini!” (“glory
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