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Ms Lesia VASYLENKO (Ukraine, ALDE)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe since 16/04/2021
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 27/01/2020 to 15/04/2021

In the Assembly

  • since 27/01/2020 Representative - Ukraine

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • First Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 23/01/2024)
  • Alternate ALDE: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (since 22/01/2024)
  • Full Member ALDE: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 24/01/2022 to 21/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 03/03/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (since 03/03/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 25/01/2024 to 28/01/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 23/01/2024 to 28/01/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 23/01/2024 to 28/01/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 28/01/2020 to 24/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Sergiy VLASENKO (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 23/01/2023)

Interventions

Last speeches

30/01/2025 | 18:53:48 President. Before I begin, I would like to thank Valentina and this esteemed Parliamentary Assembly for dedicating the efforts to this very important topic and for dedicating the time to fighting off propaganda in the best way that we can in this House. We live in an era where wars are not only fought on battlefields, but also in the digital space. Disinformation has become a weapon and social media is one of its most powerful delivery systems. For years, Russia has waged a hybrid war against... 30/01/2025 | 12:35:46 President, dear colleagues, dear rapporteur, On behalf of the people of Ukraine, let me thank you for the time and efforts this Parliamentary Assembly dedicates to the issue of peace in Ukraine. Until peace – peace through victory, that is – is achieved, this Parliamentary Assembly needs to continue debating. Its committees and all the other bodies need to continue holding brainstorming sessions as to how we can accelerate this peace and this victory. The report is very clear and concise... 30/01/2025 | 10:34:08 Thank you, President, dear colleagues and friends of the Parliamentary Assembly, It is an honour to thank, on behalf of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group, our dear rapporteur Mr Vladimir VARDANYAN for his opinion on this draft convention. The draft convention we see before us has taken in many proposals from this Parliamentary Assembly. It shall undoubtedly soon become the baseline for protecting the rights of human rights defenders across Europe and, I believe, also in... 03/10/2024 | 11:09:39 Thank you, President, and thank you to our rapporteur, Mr Knut ABRAHAM, who is not with us today, but he has brought back the topic of Holodomor to this Assembly and he has reinstated historic justice by calling the Holodomor what it really is. The crime of crimes, the crime of genocide that has been committed by Russian leadership against the Ukrainian people in the 1930s. The Holodomor was just that, the crime of crimes. It was a man-made famine against the people of Ukraine by Russian... 02/10/2024 | 17:18:49 Thank you, President. And thank you to the families of the prisoners of war and the civilian hostages who are here with us today when we discuss this very important and very painful topic. No one could have covered this topic better than our rapporteur Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA-FEDORENKO, who has been a champion advocate for prisoners of war and illegal detainees in Ukraine. And now she brought all the heavy gut-wrenching facts and heart-wrenching stories to light here, before this Assembly in...

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