People from the Ukrainian Association of South Africa protested outside the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) where Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor hosted her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov for bilateral talks in South Africa Monday. The protesters held placards with the inscription “STOP PUTIN”, “CHILD MURDERER” , "#WARCRIME” as they shouted slogans ahead of the bilateral meeting between Pandor and Lavrov in Pretoria.