Mayor Jesse Arreguín proposed the sister-city suspension after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky directly implored mayors across the country to sever their relations earlier this month.
In an email, Arreguín said that while a few dozen city residents and Berkeley Unified School District staff started to form partnerships and cultural exchanges three decades ago, “based on our research, there was no formal siste-city associations formed and no ongoing contact or collaboration after their initial formation as sister-cities.”
Suspending sister-city relations is Berkeley’s latest attempt to speak out against Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine. Since the February 24 invasion, the war has claimed hundreds of lives and created millions of refugees.
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