Meet the activists who projected a giant Ukrainian flag on Russia's Embassy in D.C.

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Anti-war activists engaged in a light beam battle against Russian diplomats in Washington, D.C., Wednesday evening in a display of disapproval over the country's ongoing war in Ukraine.

The activists spent hours projecting the Ukrainian flag on the Russian Embassy's exterior walls with ultra-bright light.

Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and one of the lead demonstrators, said the group was protesting Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the killing of Ukrainian people.

"We wanted to be respectful of the rules and how we expect these properties to be treated," he told NPR. "[We] also wanted to invade it and make it feel like they couldn't get away from the world's glare of judgment."

Wittes said the Russian Embassy, which sits about 3 miles northwest of the White House, had been an enticing target for some time. It's a large white building with windows running from top to bottom in slim columns. He recalled looking at the embassy and thinking to himself, "It looks like a big projection screen."