Thursday marked 11 years since more than 100 people died fighting for their rights in Ukraine during what’s called the Revolution of Dignity.

While it’s been more than a decade, Ukrainians who gathered to remember the fallen at St. George Ukrainian Church in the East Village say history is repeating itself.

“They started the fight back then against the Russian occupation, against the Yanukovych regime, and today we continue their fight,” Ukrainian Oleksander Taran said.

Taran moved to the United States from Ukraine a couple of years after the revolution. He finds President Donald Trump's recent rhetoric against the country troubling.

“We are worried, but we are hopeful that the new administration understands that the priorities and the values of the war, what’s really at stake here, it’s not just the existence of Ukraine. It’s the peace and security in Europe,” Taran said.

Trump has called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a dictator, and falsely blames the country for the war. The U.S. Department of State’s website, in a January memo, said: “Russia launched a premeditated, unprovoked, and brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine.”

Ukraine was also excluded from recent negotiations with Russia and the United States.

“You can’t talk about a future without the object you’re talking about,” Ukranian Volodymyr Leon Grytsak said.

Monday marks three years since the start of the war. With ongoing fighting in the region, Grytsak says the $65.9 billion in military assistance given to the country should not be looked at as a gift.

“Support is not something we need to beg for. It’s something that must be in this world because we are humans,” Grytsak said.