A trio from the three nations at the centre of the war in Ukraine accepted their Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, calling for an unabated fight against Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s “insane and criminal” invasion.
OSLO, Norway —
“The people of Ukraine want peace more than anyone else in the world,” the head of the CCL, Oleksandra Matviichuk, said. “But peace cannot be reached by a country under attack laying down its arms.”These include shelling residential buildings, churches, schools and hospitals, bombing evacuation corridors, the forced displacement of people, and torture.
“War turns people into numbers. We have to reclaim the names of all victims of war crimes,” she said in her speech, her voice overcome with emotion. Putin and his “ideological servants” have hijacked the anti-fascist struggle “for their own political interests”, he said. Amid crackdowns on the opposition and media, Russia’s Supreme Court ordered Memorial dissolved at the end of 2021.
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