Yellow Ribbon (movement)

On April 25, on a Telegram channel, the coordinators of the movement called on residents to hang Ukrainian flags and yellow ribbons on the streets and in crowded places.

Subsequently, yellow ribbons began to appear in Oleshky, Melitopol, Nova Kakhovka, Berdiansk, Yalta, Simferopol, Kerch, Saky, Donetsk, Luhansk, Henichesk, Alushta, and other cities and villages in the occupied territories.

The organizers called on Crimean activists to report data on the movement of Russian troops to the YeVorog Telegram bot, hang yellow ribbons, and send patriotic postcards saying "Crimea is Ukraine.

On August 5, the movement published "love letters" — warm lines from Ukrainians with words of support for the residents of the temporarily occupied territories.

[19] On August 7, the movement offered a reward of 10 bitcoins, or 230,000 US dollars at the time, for the arrest of Russian Crimean leader Sergey Aksyonov and information about his exact location.

Leaflets with calls to boycott referendums and not take Russian passports began to be actively distributed in temporarily occupied settlements.

[21] On the same day in Kyiv, at the street exhibition "Infoprotiv", initiated by the "Chesno" movement in cooperation with the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity, one of the boards was dedicated, among other things, to the activities of the "Yellow Ribbon".

One of these schemes is a "public survey", residents of TOT of Ukraine will be called by unknown subscribers from the Russian Federation, whose numbers start with +7».

[26] In September, yellow ribbons, patriotic posters, and graffiti continued to appear on the streets of the cities of the temporarily occupied territories.

In particular, from September 8 to 10, during the counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the movement intensified in the temporarily occupied Vovchansk.

[27] On September 14, in temporarily occupied Kherson, Nova Kakhovka, Skadovsk, Kyrylivka, Tokmak, and Ivanovka, "Yellow Ribbon" held an action to collect signatures in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

[citation needed] On September 21, during the preparations of the occupiers for the holding of the so-called "referendums", the movement called on the public to disrupt them by all means: to mark the buildings in which the "referendums" can be held with the letter "Ї", as well as to give the operators information about their holding and the participants (lists, names, photo, video, etc).

[34][35][36][37][38] In addition, the movement called on the residents of the temporarily occupied territories to completely ignore the pseudo-referendums and in no case open the door to strangers.

On November 21, the Day of Dignity and Freedom of Ukraine, the movement organized a flash mob "#ЖовтаСтрічка" ("#ZhovtaStrichka") on social networks.

Ukrainians and foreigners from all over the world joined the action, in particular, a considerable number of politicians, musicians, sportsmen, and scientists wore yellow ribbons.

In addition, the symbol of public resistance appeared at the Mission of Ukraine to the European Union in Brussels and at the Ukrainian Antarctic station Vernadsky Research Base.

[44] In the first week of 2023, "Yellow Ribbon" distributed more than 500 patriotic leaflets on the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea.