head of the Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine)/ Nobel Peace Prize 2022/ Democracy Defender Award of OSCE 2016
Oleksandra Matviichuk
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And here’s what Ukrainians think about it, as seen in this video. The owner of an apartment destroyed by a Russian drone hangs a Ukrainian flag on his balcony.
You won’t break us.
Homes were destroyed, architectural landmarks were damaged, and a man and his daughter - who had come to the maternity hospital to congratulate the mother on the birth of her newborn—were killed. These are all civilian targets that must not be fired upon, even during wartime.
I wonder if there will be any condemnation of Russian war crimes from American officials who are convinced that Russia seeks peace and that they will sign an agreement with Putin almost any day now?
Yesterday, Russia launched 948 drones against civilians in various cities across Ukraine. They attacked a maternity hospital in Ivano-Frankivsk, private homes in Kherson, the central park in Vinnytsia, a train in the Kharkiv region, and the historic center of Lviv, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
I fear that by the time we finish talking, some of these children will already have become adults. Former children with erased identities, trained to shoot and raised by the Russians to hate, will go to kill and die in any country where Russia tells them to go, to kill and die.
I got up at 3 am. I’ll be on the road all day today. Tomorrow in Luxembourg, we’ll be discussing the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children and what Europe’s response should be. Childhood has an expiry date.
