28/01/2025 | 10:31:23 Hello, dear colleagues. Yes, it's working. Dear colleagues, Let me congratulate our rapporteur on raising this incredibly timely, important topic. All of us, we need an absolute rethinking of the international order. And as is rightly said in the report, we have unprecedented challenges for different international organisations. I don't need to name them, they are all in the report. But what do we see now? We see that some of these organisations, including the United Nations, International... 03/10/2024 | 10:40:12 Dear colleagues, I want to tell you thank you for each of you who are giving a speech now about Holodomor. I'm going to say thank you to the rapporteur, for the current chair who are presenting these. [For] so many years, Ukrainians were waiting until Holodomor would be recognised as a genocide. You know, at that time, times in the thirties, during Stalin's times, it was such a dramatic time. My great-grandmother used to be telling my mother that during Holodomor, she would go to her work... 02/10/2024 | 17:03:28 Dear colleagues, Imagine if your friend or relative is fighting in a war, goes missing or gets into captivity by the enemy. What would you do when you would try to defend this person and get them out of captivity? You would start reaching different international organisations asking for their assistance. And these organisations – we know their names, it's the ICRC, it's the OSCE, it's different UN agencies – usually facilitate the exchanges of prisoners of war. Civilians are facilitated by... 27/06/2024 | 12:19:39 Dear colleagues, I want to join the incredibly big gratitude to all of the member states, all of the countries that provided, not only generosity, it was unprecedented, open hearts and hands that are incredibly much appreciated by all of us. I remember all those days and weeks in the beginning, how tragic, how dramatic it all was. Sometimes for Ukrainians who after days of travelling, after being internally and externally displaced, would finally have a warm tea of some people may be who... 26/06/2024 | 16:51:43 Thank this House, this Assembly, for the majority of your voices supporting an importance of sanctions, which means the majority of you are on the light and positive, right part of morality. Yes, we're all in politics, and some may say that in politics you're not making moral, right decisions. I'm sorry. No, it's not the case anymore. Business as usual shouldn't be going the way it was going for many years because business as usual always leads to feeding those who can commit crimes and run... 26/06/2024 | 10:20:35 Dear colleagues, Let me start by congratulating my co-rapporteurs here, and others, but very important similar topics that we're discussing in one debate. Different components of the crimes, legal consequences. What can we do to protect, to counter aggression, and to look deeply on the cultural identity level what the Russian aggression creates? The Report on the role of sanctions in countering the Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine is covering many important crucial... 25/06/2024 | 17:12:27 Dear colleagues, Every Ukrainian woman now knows what it means to live in survival mode. Every Ukrainian woman knows how important it is to talk about human rights. Every Ukrainian woman is scared of tomorrow because we know that our relatives, our children may be under attack. Unfortunately, there is a significant number of Ukrainian women who lost their loved ones. Sometimes it's actually even maybe– it's hard to say that it's positive–but it's very tragic that sometimes when these women... 25/06/2024 | 10:41:23 Thanks. Let me congratulate our rapporteurs for providing us with this discussion. Some may say that it is very theoretical but in fact this is a very serious attempt to rethink what democracy of today we need to have. Democracy is not only a word, it is actually about institutions, it is about participation, it is about voting. And we know that our democracies, in all the member states, are having not the best times now. And there are reasons for that. This is an attempt to think what we... 18/04/2024 | 15:55:45 Dear colleagues, It is incredible but also shocking that, in fact, this convention is the first ever international treaty on artificial intelligence. And on behalf of the Group of the European People's Party, of course, I want to congratulate all of us for finally having this convention, for having this report because it seems quite crazy that we have so much of the influence of artificial intelligence in our democracies but it is the only time we finally have some regulations on that. As... 18/04/2024 | 11:41:32 Dear colleagues, you know I am often asked as a Ukrainian when was that first moment when we crossed the border since the beginning of the war to the areas where they were no war. And, you know, surprisingly, I remember that moment a lot. Yes, there were queues of people. There were a lot of tears but there was also one thing that I remember very clearly that really broke my heart, it is the fact that the birds were singing on the border. For quite a long time, it was our first trip actually...