Anyway Ukraine wants this war to be paramount in the public consciousness abroad, which is why Zelenskyy is urging visibility along with anti-war marches and so on. We now live in a society where local county councils have their own Twitter feeds and so on; the information war might look like a side-show when people are dying, but it's realistically all we as foreigners can do.

There is a law against which you could have shown your opposition at least bi-weekly for the past (almost) year about the criminalisation of helping refugees.

What, didn't it matter back then? I can think of at least 2 reasons why it wouldn't have mattered back then, and none of them make you lot look good.