Liverpool FC fans have been encouraged to show support to Ukraine at Wembley during Sunday's match vs Chelsea FC.
Liverpool FC are to meet Chelsea FC in the final of the Carabao Cup at Wembley on Sunday, February 27.
A former Liverpool councillor has appealed for all fans who will be making the journey to London on the weekend to show support for Ukraine by carrying their flag.
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Paul Clark, a former Cllr for Walton and Lord Mayor of Liverpool during the city's year of the European Capital Culture, said supporters should show support to the people of Ukraine following the "abhorrent" scenes in Eastern Europe.
Paul Clark, who retired in 2010, told the ECHO he remembers when Liverpool showed solidarity with the people of Odessa and Ukraine when the two city's twinned when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.
Mr Clark said when the city's twinned "it had quite an effect as it showed the Soviet Union couldn't continue acting like it did".
Mr Clark added: "We have this bond with Ukraine and I think it would be really good to show the people of Liverpool stand with them.
"It would be great to see the Ukrainian flag flying with Liverpool's in a show of solidarity.
"If everyone can make their own individual actions it can then make a big wave of protests.
"Time and time again Liverpool stands up for the oppressed - we did it in the 70s and we need to do it again now."
President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to invade neighbouring Ukraine on Thursday in what NATO called a "brutal act of war".
Horrific rocket strikes have struck cities including Odessa and capital Kyiv - and at least 194 Ukrainian citizens and military have been killed.
Thousands of Russian civilians have protested against the war with thousands of arrests made in key Russian cities.
President Putin sees Ukraine as historically part of Russia - and in 2014 Russia invaded Crimea in the south of Ukraine, and continues to occupy it.
NATO is currently providing weapons, supplies and field hospitals to Ukraine - and has called the invasion "a flagrant violation of international law".
Mr Clark told the ECHO : "The actions of Russia is just naked aggression fuelled by a bully trying to subjugate the people.
"There's plenty of brave people in Russia and saying it's wrong - so we should be showing it's wrong- as well."
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