On 5 February 2021, from two[113] to five[114] thousand people in Kharkiv marched through the city with banners stating "Kharkiv is Ukraine" and "stop Russian aggression".[113] Participants stated that there was anger at the prospect of a Russian invasion, rather than panic as in 2014 when the War in Donbas started. Interviewees judged that the Ukrainian army and citizens would make a Russian invasion difficult, with the Russian forces "suffer[ing] intolerable losses", and that Kharkhiv residents "[knew] how to survive" after year of living under the threat of invasion.[113]