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Ms Olena KHOMENKO (Ukraine, EC/DA)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Vice-Chairperson: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance since 01/10/2024
  • Auditor: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 22/01/2024 to 30/09/2024
  • Member: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 27/01/2020 to 21/01/2024

In the Assembly

  • since 22/01/2024 Representative - Ukraine
  • from 27/01/2020 to 21/01/2024 Substitute - Ukraine

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 22/01/2024)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (since 23/01/2023)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (since 23/01/2023)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 24/01/2022 to 21/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (since 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (from 06/07/2020 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Public Health and Sustainable Development (from 28/01/2020 to 22/01/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Serhii SOBOLIEV (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 25/11/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Serhii SOBOLIEV (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 07/03/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Yuriy KAMELCHUK (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 27/01/2020 to 24/11/2021)

Interventions

Last speeches

03/10/2024 | 17:35:01 Dear colleagues, the world faces growing threats to food supply chains driven by conflict and geopolitical instability, not just climate change. Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine has pushed 70 million people around the world to the brink of starvation due to disruptions in food supply chains. Russia keeps using famine as a weapon to achieve geopolitical goals around the world. Food security goes beyond access to healthy food in peaceful times. It involves ensuring resilient... 02/10/2024 | 17:46:12 Dear colleagues, I would like to begin this speech with a real and a very personal story. This story is about a young marine, Yurii, who had been in Russian captivity for more than two years and was returned to Ukraine during the latest prisoners of war exchange. While in captivity, Yurii lost his ability to speak and to feel emotions — Russian torture had brought him to this point. Upon returning to Ukraine, receiving proper medical treatment and undergoing rehabilitation, he eventually... 30/09/2024 | 12:18:32 Honoured guest, distinguished colleagues, friends of freedom. Václav HAVEL was a man who understood the true essence of resistance. He once wrote, "You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up the most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances." HAVEL's life, and the lives of those honoured with this prize, teach us that resisting oppression is never a matter of choice, but... 27/06/2024 | 17:59:52 Thank you. Dear colleagues, we deem the discussion on the critical issue of the explosive remnants of war as critical for the future of the country. It is evident that our country is suffering really the most extensive impact of vast parts of our territory, and we will have to be creative to liberate our lands not only from Russians but also from remnants of war left by them. Indeed these weapons have devastating effects on civilians causing immediate casualties and long-term trauma. They... 27/06/2024 | 12:29:49 Can I start? Sorry? Dear colleagues, I would like to thank the rapporteur for this comprehensive report, substantially covering the issues of internally and externally displaced people of Ukraine, but also focusing on deported children, on prisoners of war, and civilian hostages. This report is truly historic and very timely since the aggressive war rages on making more and more Ukrainians leave their dear homes and cities, seeking safety either in other regions of Ukraine or abroad, in your...

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