On the third day of the war, when hundreds of people in Ukraine had already been killed by the Russian army, many people at a rally in Düsseldorf sank to their knees. In grief. In humility. In pain. The rally had originally been planned by Belarusians in North Rhine-Westphalia as a protest against the dictatorship in their native country, and in response to Alexander Lukashenko’s plans to change the Belarusian constitution so that he could no longer be prosecuted for his actions in office: total immunity for a dictator, in other words.

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