26/01/2023 | 12:59:30 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Every Ukrainian wakes up every day with gratitude for being alive. We are clearly aware that our lives and the lives of our families can be destroyed in an instant. Unfortunately, this is the reality. On a holiday afternoon, January 14, when families with their children were resting at home, a Russian rocket targeted the residential building in the city of Dnipro killing at least 46 people and injuring another 80. 11 people have not yet been... 25/01/2023 | 12:41:38 These little things, you know, are following us every day. We spend with smartphones probably more time than we spend with our families and friends. Of course, modern technologies can bring a lot of good, especially in the medical sphere. I can say for sure, I'm coming from a doctor's family, and, really, modern technology does do a lot of good. But of course, we need to understand that data protection is also very much important. Also, from the debates as well, it's my own opinion that we... 24/01/2023 | 17:45:59 Thank you Madam Chair. First of all I'd like to thank my dear friend Ms Fiona O'LOUGHLIN for this comprehensive work and very well-written report. Of course the past year was extremely difficult for Europe. The full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation on my country has sown instability across the continent. While we each on our front restrain the aggressor, Europe must react and act properly - and the Council of Europe as well. Everyone should understand that if Ukraine does not defeat... 24/01/2023 | 10:15:33 Mister Chair, First of all, I would like to thank Ms Petra BAYR for her report, which sadly turned out to be extremely relevant today, of course, because of the war in Ukraine. But it does not influence just Ukrainian women, it is a problem all over the world. Today I am wearing embroidery made by Kosovan women that were raped during the war. The ongoing aggression against Ukraine has been accompanied by a consistent pattern of sexual violence. This issue for me, as a woman and a mother, is... 13/10/2022 | 11:08:53 Thank you, Mister President, Dear Rapporteur, Mister ZINGERIS, I am delighted to open this debate, especially after such a powerful intervention of Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZELENSKYY, for the first time speaking in this Assembly. The ALDE Group of course will be supporting this resolution and the wording is strong and, I think, also to political committee that made these wording even stronger. So, I urge you to support also the amendments that were carried by the political committee... 22/06/2022 | 18:53:15 Yes, thank you, I will be much quicker than that because I understand it has been a long debate. I thank you for your contribution to this debate. It is very important for all that you said, and moreover, it is even more important what you did for Ukraine and other countries that experienced such tragedies as war of aggression. And about the topic that I was carrying in my resolution and my report, I would like to say, that having women at the table of negotiations means not just because... 22/06/2022 | 15:57:56 Thank you so much dear colleagues. It's my first report and it became very personal. I never knew that I would be finishing in it during the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation to Urkaine. And actually when I was returning from the fact-finding mission on this report from Netherlands, I was travelling from Amsterdam and before that from The Hague, I landed in Boryspil, in Kyiv, and that was the last flight on the 23rd of February. It was the last flight that landed in the capital of... 21/06/2022 | 19:16:53 Dear Colleagues, It is very obvious that the Russian regime is very bad at building democracy and very good at building Gulags. Filtration camps, torture, kidnapping, forced deportations, putting people into prison for 10 or 15 years just for calling a war a war, closing independent media: that is what the modern Russia of the 21st century looks like right now, but also the territories that it occupies. Crimea experienced these gross violations of human rights eight years ago. Crimean Tatars... 21/06/2022 | 11:21:50 Thank you, Chair. Dear Colleagues, Let me first recall the title of this report and, respectively, the draft resolution: "Recent Challenges to Security in Europe: What Role for the Council of Europe". I want to express my gratitude to the rapporteur for putting it exactly like this. Answering the question regarding the role of the Council of Europe, we have to work on updating the understanding of the basic mechanisms of its functioning and our co‑operation in it. This new vision and new... 28/04/2022 | 11:22:30 Thank you, dear colleagues. I'm really honoured to open this debate. First, before we go to these legal terms, about the court, about perpetrators, and how to get them, I would like to remind you why are we here talking about this. I want to tell you a story of Mykola Mykytchyk from the village of Katyuzhanka, Kyiv region. As well as millions of Ukrainians, he can't come here and tell his story, but I can't do it. He is a school principal, Mykola Mykytchyk. What he told: we had 40 new laptops...