Oleksandra Matviichuk

@avalaina

head of the Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine)/ Nobel Peace Prize 2022/ Democracy Defender Award of OSCE 2016

Kyiv, Ukraine

Joined August 2009

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Oleksandra Matviichuk
@avalaina
Jul 11
Yesterday, at a meeting of the Global Foresight Council in Paris, we discussed security. War has changed dramatically over the past five years. At the start of the full-scale invasion, I refused to evacuate and remained in Kyiv, which the Russians were trying to encircle. Back
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Oleksandra Matviichuk
@avalaina
Sep 5
I was on an advocacy trip abroad, where I could sleep at night without explosions above my head and didn’t have to carry a tourniquet in my bag in case of massive bleeding. But we still carry everything within ourselves regardless. Last night, at the hotel in the room next
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Oleksandra Matviichuk
@avalaina
Aug 30
Air raid alerts have been sounding continuously, day and night, in Kyiv over recent days. They sound dozens of times a day. Consequently, it has long ceased to fulfil its primary function of alerting the public to imminent danger. Rather, the sound itself has become an annoying
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Oleksandra Matviichuk
@avalaina
Aug 1
We have the best people in the world working in air defense. But we don't have the missiles to protect ourselves. Trump changed his mind about giving us a license so that Ukraine could make these missiles itself. And my favorite city Kyiv is covered in craters like these.
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Oleksandra Matviichuk
@avalaina
Jul 29
On the night of July 28-29, 2022, a powerful explosion occurred on the territory of the former penal colony in occupied Olenivka. Ukrainian prisoners of war were being held there in a separate barracks. The day before the explosion, the Russians took about 200 soldiers from the
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