They protest against Trump's dealings with Putin: "Is scary"

"Stop Trump's diesel deal, all support for Ukraine!"

That's what it sounds like outside the US embassy in Stockholm this Saturday in October, after almost five years of full-scale war in Ukraine.

About a hundred people have gathered in the street outside the White Building to demonstrate against the US's rapprochement with Russia.

US President Donald Trump has recently signed an agreement with Russia's dito Vladimir Putin to enable the sale of Russian diesel on the global market.

At the same time, there have been alarms from the front that the American Starlink satellite network did not work as it should and that intelligence was not shared as agreed.

- As Americans, we stand for democracy and we are very concerned about the direction of American politics right now, says Motria Jaremko, who is here with her two children Zachary and Karolina.

The children, Jaremko, are Swedish-Ukrainian-American and Karolina is one of the speakers during today's demonstration. Mother Motria is Ukrainian-American and the children's father is Swedish-American. Zachary says he is ashamed of Donald Trump's actions.

- I think it's scary that he's financing a war, it makes me sick.

Tetiana Kyrpel is one of many Ukrainians living in Sweden. She had already applied to study abroad when full-scale war broke out in February 2022. Family and friends remain in Ukraine.

- Every night is uncertain. You don't know where the next Russian bomb will fall. Sometimes I just hope it's all a nightmare and that I'll wake up soon, she says.

But hope is not enough, says Tetiana Kyrpel. That is why she has come to the US Embassy today to demonstrate. She wants the message to reach the United States.

- It feels important to be here, she says.

In the past 24 hours alone, four people have died and 78 others have been injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine, according to local authorities cited by the Kyiv Independent. The coming winter is expected to be tough. Many Ukrainians are left largely without electricity and heating as Russia bombs the country's energy facilities.

- The winters are getting worse and worse. Last winter was terrible, says Tetiana Kyrpel.

She worries about developments in the United States and hopes that Ukraine will receive more help from Europe to succeed in standing up to Russia.

- We must never let the authoritarian regimes win, she says.