“We want this war to end as soon as possible, and all Western countries to support Ukraine,” said the alliance’s NSW president, Ilya Fomin.

“A fight for human rights and democracy instead of Putin’s totalitarian regime in Russia will be the next imminent step, also to ensure such a tragedy can’t happen again.”

The group said it has sent more than three tonnes of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, including surgical instruments, gowns, hygiene and healthcare products, with some directly to the city of Kharkiv. The group says it was instrumental in getting Australian media outlets like SBS to drop state-backed Russian patriotic networks.

A spokesperson for the Russian embassy called the Svoboda Alliance “a tiny but vocal group striving to push an anti-Russian agenda in Australia”.

If the Svoboda Alliance “is indeed designated as an undesirable foreign organisation under Russian legislation, the embassy will most likely provide the information on what it entails,” the spokesperson said.