Oleksandra Viacheslavivna Matviichuk
(Ukrainian: Олександра В’ячеславівна Матвійчук; born 8 October 1983) is a Ukrainian human rightslawyer and civil society leader based in Kyiv. She heads the non-profit organization Centre for Civil Liberties (Nobel Peace Prize receiver in 2022) and is a campaigner for democratic reforms in her country and the OSCE region.
From October 2022 to October 2025, she has been Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).
Matviichuk is a member of the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy, a project of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Nov 10, 2026
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk:
Trump promised to end the war in 24 hours. Now he has decided to finance it. These are already the longest 24 hours in human history.
Witkoff called putin a humanitarian. I have interviewed hundreds of people released from russian captivity. They were beaten, raped, locked in wooden boxes, had their fingers cut off, their fingernails ripped out, and were tortured with electric shocks to their genitals. One woman described how her eye was gouged out with a spoon.
What is happening now is an imitation of a peace process.
I met a five-year-old girl in Kyiv. The russians abducted her mother because of her pro-Ukrainian views, tortured her, and repeatedly gang-raped her. They then took her to russia and fabricated a criminal case against her.
The girl hugged me, burst into tears, and began begging: “Please, bring my mommy back.” I am a human rights lawyer, but I have no legal tools to force russia to return her. I hugged the girl and promised that we would fight for her mother.
Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was my friend and colleague. She traveled to the occupied territories to tell the truth about russian crimes. She was abducted, tortured, and secretly transferred to russia. She was held without formal charges and without contact with the outside world.
She was denied medical care. She weighed just 30 kilograms. The russians refused to return her body to her parents for six months. When they finally did, several internal organs, her eyes, her brain, and part of her trachea were missing. We still do not know how she died.
Viktoriia believed that the truth could save thousands of lives. That people in other countries, once they learned the truth, would make the right decisions.
My friend and teacher, Professor Ihor Kozlovskyi, spent 700 days in russian captivity. For months, he was held alone in a small, dark basement cell without windows or fresh air. Rats crawled out of the sewer.
He gave philosophy lectures to the rats just to hear a human voice. He was tortured so severely that after his release, he had to learn to walk again.
Kozlovskyi told me: “Everything I have experienced does not make me see myself as a victim. The foundation of our existence is dignity. And dignity is action.”
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As the world prepares for winter festivities, Ukrainians prepare to survive darkness and freezing cold due to Russia’s terror.
Don’t forget about Ukraine this winter!
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CcZmBNY3T/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Nov 8
«Today, the Russians destroyed a kindergarten in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district and damaged residential buildings.
The “desire for peace” was so great that it left huge craters. During the day, the children’s parents and the kindergarten staff were cleaning up the building after the Russian attack. Through tears, they say it was one of the best kindergartens.
Children’s toys lie strewn across the destroyed building and the street, mixed with shattered glass, concrete, and the remnants of the “peace deal” that flew in from the north.»
Impressions and photos by Serhii Nuzhnenko, taken after the overnight Russian attack.
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This young, beautiful woman is Oleksandra Kazarovytska (Kolesnykova). She died in Sevastopol. Oleksandra lived with her family in Kharkiv; her parents lived in occupied Crimea.
In Kharkiv, Oleksandra, together with two other teachers, founded an English school. She was kind and talented. The children loved her.
This summer she went to Sevastopol to help her parents sell their apartment and move out of occupied Crimea.
There, the Russians detained her. They found correspondence on her phone with a volunteer at the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
For three months, Oleksandra was kept in solitary confinement. Later, her family was informed of her alleged “suicide.”
Oleksandra left behind her daughter Alice, her husband, and two children from her husband’s first marriage.
Suicide in a Russian pre-trial detention center.
We know very well what this is.
Murderers. Simply murderers.
Photo from Victoria Halimon page
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Nov 9
As the world prepares for winter festivities, Ukrainians prepare to survive darkness and freezing cold due to Russia’s terror.
Don’t forget about Ukraine this winter!
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CcZmBNY3T/?mibextid=wwXIfr
I’m not optimistic about this but Sean is a wonderfully passionate supporter of Ukraine and I hope he is right! :-
Democratic midterm victory will empower Ukraine to defeat Russia – Sean Penn
https://english.nv.ua/nation/sean-penn-sees-ukrainian-victory-after-midterm-shakeup-50657904.html
More fucking trumputler bullshit :
U.S. envoys propose redrawing Ukrainian oblast lines so Putin can claim Donbas win — The Economist
https://english.nv.ua/nation/u-s-team-crafts-map-shift-so-putin-can-claim-donbas-win-50657911.html#goog_rewarded
Donald Trump makes sinister claim Ukraine will take on new ‘shape’ in fresh deal
https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/donald-trump-makes-sinister-claim-130457000.html
Viktor Yushchenko :
My dear Ukrainians, my native nation!
You know, when you walk through the morning Kyiv, which breathes with antiquity and at the same time heals today’s fresh wounds, I often think about the sacred land we stand on. Under our feet is not just asphalt and cobblestones. Under our feet is a thousand-year-old memory, which for centuries has been tried to be burned, trampled, and covered with the garbage of oblivion.
Just think about it. We had a ruler before whom the whole of Europe bowed its head. The grandson of the English king and the Danish ruler, the son-in-law of the Swedish monarch and the Byzantine emperor, the father-in-law of the kings of Norway and Hungary. His blood and will united the world from the Baltic to the Black Sea. He was called Garald in the royal chambers of the West, and here, at home, he was our great prince, father, and protector — Mstislav the Great. The last hand that held the only, indivisible, and mighty Kyivan Rus.
A man whose state wisdom and military strength held the sky over our lands. The founder of the temples, the founder of the wonderful Fedorov monastery, the patron of culture, whose name is written in gold in world history.
And where is he today, our prince?
Walk along Volodymyrska Street. There, under the modest pedestal, on the territory of the former monastery, which he himself built, a person of such scale, about whom European chronicles compiled legends, is quietly sleeping in eternal sleep. In the capital of a European state, for which he gave his heart, there is still not even a real monument. There is no street of his in Kyiv — although in Kryvyi Rih, in Izyum, in Kamianske they remember him, and we at home are ashamed of our grandeur.
Why is that? Because foreigners — Muscovites, empires, Katyushas of all kinds — have been waging the most terrible war against us for centuries. A war not only for territories, but also for memory. They stole our past to deprive us of our future. They wanted to convince us that we are “periphery”, that we are rootless, that our history begins with someone else’s decision. They wanted us to forget the taste of our own grandeur.
But we are alive. We fight today for every piece of our land, for every Ukrainian word, for every crumb of our truth. So do we have the right to continue passing by his grave with indifference? Do we have the right to be silent?
No. To return Mstyslav the Great to our national Pantheon of Glory, to build a majestic monument to him, to name a street in his honor in a free capital and to return from nothing everything that they tried to steal from us — this is not just historical justice. This is our spiritual tempering. This is our return home, to ourselves. Because a people who honor their heroes are unbreakable.
Let us remember who we are, whose children we are, and how much blood flows in our veins. For the sake of our memory, for the sake of our dignity, for the sake of our victory.
Glory to Ukraine.
Garry Kasparov :
A question for Trump: Who do you trust more, the KGB mafia dictator of invader Russia who has lied to you repeatedly and broken every international agreement, or the elected leader of Ukraine who keeps his word and has never lied to you?
Illia Ponomarenko :
This country owes a giant-ass monument to those who bring electricity back to Ukrainian homes (oh, those sudden moments of joy in every household!) after every barrage of Russian missiles, day after day, regardless of the weather or danger.
And some serious bonuses and lifelong financial support, too.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky :
Why don’t Russia’s war dead shake Russian society? They come mostly from small towns and forgotten regions, and mostly signed contracts for big money, so sympathy for them is not great. That’s why the real triggers are open mobilization and failed payments to soldiers or their families.
Operator Starsky (on Krasnov) :
This ridiculous man keeps repeating that his administration has sold Ukraine Javelins (exactly 37 launchers and 210 anti-tank missiles), as if he single-handedly stopped the russian invasion and defeated putin.
37 launchers and 210 missiles, my friends. Imagine 37 Javelin operators against 6.000 russian tanks. The way Trump talks about it is as if these 37 anti-tank systems hurt russia more than Biden’s Storm Shadows and ATACMs.
What a disgraceful human being.
Er correction OS : British Storm Shadows.
Shaun Pinner just now :
This sham in Abu Dhabi is exactly what I wrote about. Putin thinks time is on his side. Why would he stop when Washington leans on Ukraine and lets Moscow stall?
Putin will get serious when carrying on costs him more than ending the war, right now, these two idiots are helping him. 🤷♂️
Why would we hand Putin the fortress belt he can’t take by force? It’s vital to Ukraine’s defence.
When Kushner and Witkoff talk about giving up land, they’re talking about leaving Ukrainians to face torture and abuse, they couldn’t give a shit 🇺🇦
Roman Sheremeta :
What Russia has done is the greatest evil of our lifetime.
Yes Roman.
Enabled by the most evil U.S. president in history.
WW3finalboss :
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According to CNN, Zelensky’s workday begins between 3 and 4 in the morning, when the first battlefield reports arrive.
He drinks strong black coffee, no sugar, to push through the early hours.
Even under constant pressure, he has not lost his sense of humor and still finds brief moments to reset.
The years of war, strain, and emotional weight are visible on him. No one carries that kind of burden without it showing.
And yet he remains standing.
Respect to Volodymyr Zelensky.
Joni Askola :
Every time Russia commits a war crime in Ukraine or carries out sabotage in Europe, we should send missiles, drones, or funding to Ukraine in response.
“They were beaten, raped, locked in wooden boxes, had their fingers cut off, their fingernails ripped out, and were tortured with electric shocks to their genitals. One woman described how her eye was gouged out with a spoon.”
Let us be quite clear about this : these satanic vermin are sponsored by Krasnov. Who else but Krasnov would hire a filthy putler-rimmer like Witless to “negotiate” “peace?”