- Title: Femen activists bare chests to protest Iranian arms deliveries to Russia
- Date: 4th October 2024
- Summary: KYIV, UKRAINE (OCTOBER 4, 2024) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS NUDITY*** FEMEN ACTIVIST ARRIVING ON MOTORBIKE, HER JACKET AND HELMET COVERED WITH IRANIAN AND RUSSIAN FLAGS / TWO BARE-BREASTED FEMEN ACTIVISTS ARRIVING, CHANTING (English): "FUCK RUSSIA! FUCK IRAN!" / POLICE OFFICERS TRYING TO COVER THEM WITH RAIN COVERS / MEDIA ON SITE VARIOUS OF FEMEN ACTIVISTS STAGING TOPL
- Embargoed: 18th October 2024 12:37
- Keywords: Shahed drones drones supplies missiles supplies ties between Iran and Russia war in Ukraine
- Location: KYIV, UKRAINE
- City: KYIV, UKRAINE
- Country: Ukraine
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001931104102024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: CONTAINS PARTIAL NUDITY THROUGHOUT AND PROFANE LANGUAGE IN SHOT 1)
Ukrainian feminist protest group Femen rallied on Friday (October 4) outside Iranian embassy in Kyiv against Iranian drone and missile deliveries to Russia.
Two topless women protesters with the slogans "Fuck Russia" and "Fuck Iran" scrawled across their chests showed up in front of the Iranian embassy, following another protester arriving by motorbike.
Since it was founded in Kyiv in 2008, the Femen movement has won notoriety in Europe for its stands - usually topless -- against sex tourism, homophobia and religious institutions.
Kyiv said in September it could cut ties with Tehran if Russia used ballistic missiles supplied by Iran to attack Ukraine, and it denounced any such delivery of the weapons as "unacceptable".
Ukraine downgraded ties with Iran in 2022 over Tehran's supply of unmanned Shahed attack drones to Russia, which Moscow troops have since used for regular long-range attacks.
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