25/06/2025 | 10:30:18 Thank you, Chair. Let me congratulate our rapporteurs for bringing this very important topic of sport as a soft power in our lives. I'm grateful personally, because I was present when these reports were discussed in the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media and hearings brought me back to when I was studying ancient Greek philosophy, which actually says that sport is incredibly important for democracy. And I just want to ask here: do we remember that sport can actually be used to... 24/06/2025 | 18:06:58 Dear colleagues, I want to thank you, each and every one of you who raised the numbers, the facts and people's life stories. It matters to us. It matters to many Ukrainians, to different categories in our society: women, men, children, young people, elderly, those who are the frontline, those who are not. All of us, we go through very hellish days in our lives. And I wish I wouldn't be repeating all of this to you, but I've heard the question raised by one of the colleagues here from... 24/06/2025 | 11:43:22 Thank you, President. Dear colleagues, today once again we are discussing Russian crimes against Ukraine. Unfortunately, it continues, but it's great that in this Assembly we discuss political aspects and the legal aspects together. I've been a member of this Assembly six years already, but I think only in recent weeks have I become very, very scared of what happens in the world so much. Before coming here, I faced two big attacks in Kyiv, with a lot of massive drones and ballistic missiles... 10/04/2025 | 17:34:49 Dear colleagues, Last year, I've heard many times many of our European colleagues saying, we will make decisions after the American elections, after someone else in United States is elected, and then we will try to follow up with our policies. Since recently, I think I don't need to explain why many European member states became more aware of the importance to act independently without any other elections in other parts of the world. Me personally, I've been stressing the importance of a... 10/04/2025 | 10:40:19 Dear colleagues, When I was a child, for me, "Chernobyl" as a word was very scary. But at the same time, all of us in the Ukrainian delegation, and not only, we were raised with knowledge on Chernobyl and the consequences of Chernobyl. But I was told that it cannot be repeated if it's not done on purpose. As a child I was wondering why there are so many bad consequences on the environment. But I was naive in thinking that it's not possible to commit so many crimes intentionally. But... 08/04/2025 | 16:22:08 Dear colleagues, do you know why this report is important? I can tell you that maybe it's the first time that we discuss defence and national security as one action of our attentions here. We often were told that we, in the Council of Europe, we are not dealing with defence and security, but now we're talking about what is the place of the foreign interference within national security frameworks. I think it's a core question that all of us must understand, that foreign interference brings... 29/01/2025 | 10:44:41 Dear colleagues, I'm sure that you've been wondering many times why we Ukrainians are so crazily brave. We want to talk so much about history, about our self-determination. I'm sure you were wondering that many times. And one of the answers is in our history, that in the past, in the centuries of the past, our historical memory was taken away from us. It was always an attempt from an aggressor, from Russian Empire, from Soviet Union, to delete our memory. About our family roots, about our... 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...