Tens of thousands marched through Moscow March 15 to protest the Russian military occupation of Crimea and threats against Ukraine. Protesters held up banners that said, “For your freedom and ours.”

“This is to show Ukrainian citizens our solidarity, so they will see there is another Russia,” Maria Lobanova told the Washington Post.

Demonstrators waved Ukrainian and Russian flags and chanted, “Putin is afraid of the Maidan” and “Putin, go away.”

“Don’t believe it when they say that we are few, that we are weak,” Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of Pussy Riot, told the crowd. “Together we will change this country.”

A smaller demonstration backing the Russian invasion took place the same day, by men wearing identical red jackets, marching military style.