Ukrainian human rights lawyer and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviychuk today linked the policies of United States President Donald Trump to the increasing number of civilian casualties in Russia's war in Ukraine.
Matviychuk asked on Facebook: "Why was the year of Trump's negotiations the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale (Russian) invasion?"
She stated that since Trump began negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine, "the number of dead and wounded has increased by 31 percent compared to the previous year."
"Why didn't (Russian President Vladimir) Putin allow himself such brutal attacks on (Ukraine's) civilian infrastructure during the time of (Joseph) Biden, whom Trump calls a 'weakling', but instead, ignoring the 'strong Trump', completely destroys peaceful cities?" Matviychuk asked, comparing the former and current US presidents.
Aleksandra Matvichuk has been the head of the Center for Civil Liberties (CGS) in Kyiv since 2007. She has gained global recognition for her work documenting Russian war crimes in Ukraine, which led to the CGS receiving the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.
She shares the Nobel Peace Prize with the Russian human rights group "Memorial" and Belarusian activist Ales Byalyatski.
She also received the "Right to Life Award", in recognition of building sustainable democratic institutions in Ukraine, in 2022.
Matvichuk was listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023, and in 2022 by the Financial Times magazine as one of the 25 most influential women in the world.
Focused on establishing democracy and protecting human rights in Ukraine, she coordinated the Citizens' Initiative "Euromaidan SOS" to provide legal assistance to persecuted protesters during the "Revolution of Dignity" in 2013-2014.
Since Russia's first invasion of Ukraine in 2014, it has led efforts to document tens of thousands of crimes, creating an evidence base for future international accountability.
She is a co-founder of the "Tribunal for Putin" - an initiative to advocate for the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute the Russian political and military leadership for the crime of aggression.
Matvichuk is the author of numerous reports for the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and the International Criminal Court.
She is a vocal critic of international political changes and recently visited Syria to draw parallels between Russian actions in Ukraine and Syria.
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