The day before, this year's laureate Oleksandra Matviychuk returned to Kyiv.

The head of the Ukrainian human rights group "Center for Civil Liberties" received the Nobel Peace Prize for documenting war crimes, human rights violations and abuse of power, TSN reports. 

Colleagues and friends greeted the Nobel laureate Oleksandra Matviychuk on the dark platform of the central railway station.

She immediately takes out a gold medal with the image of Alfred Nobel from her pocket.

"This is for Ukraine, so that we have new opportunities that we will use, and that people stop dying in the occupied territories, and that they stop dying in the rear," she says.  

The Nobel laureate adds that this award is primarily a recognition of the efforts of the Ukrainian people, who are fighting against attempts to disrupt the peaceful development of Europe.

Oleksandr Matviychuk received the award on December 10 in Oslo.

In addition to a Ukrainian woman, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to human rights defenders from Russia and Belarus.

Oleksandra Matviychuk previously stated that this is not a union of representatives of three nations.

It was received by people who fight against common evil.

Oleksandra Matviychuk, together with colleagues and partners from other human rights organizations, recorded more than twenty-seven thousand episodes related to war crimes.

The huge and impressive figure is actually the tip of the iceberg, says the human rights activist.

She and her colleagues will continue to work on documentation and create a new strategy of integrated justice, one of the elements of which is an international tribunal.

"We will see Putin, Putin's authoritarian regime is quite strong there, but history proves it convincingly.

That authoritarian regimes fall, and their leaders, who considered themselves untouchable, are brought to justice.

To do this, we need to convince the world to change its vision and look at all this through the situation at the Nuremberg trials, when the Nazi criminals were convicted, we need to convince that justice should not wait,

Ms. Matviychuk spoke about the international tribunal, about the new international system of peace and security, as well as about the need for modern weapons for the defense of Ukraine, not only while receiving the award.

She says that she later emphasized this at meetings in Washington and the European Parliament.

"I had the opportunity to be heard, this is the first time when the voices of human rights defenders are heard from our region, I managed to raise the issue of justice at a high level.

At the same time, I admit, I was in a rather unusual position for myself, because besides that, I said that Ukraine needs weapons... And I asked the heads of the political groups of the European Parliament, who said that you are fighting not only for Ukraine, you are fighting for all of Europe .

If we are fighting for the whole of Europe, then why is Ukrainian military officer Andriana Susak blown up by a landmine in a civilian car.

If you have so many armored vehicles in warehouses.

We have to see the answer in action.

We are waiting for action," she says.  

The Center for Civil Liberties, headed by Oleksandra Matviychuk, was founded in 2007.

After Russia's invasion of Ukraine back in 2014, the Center participated in mobile monitoring groups in Crimea and Donbas, and also submitted certificates to the International Criminal Court about crimes against humanity committed on Euromaidan. 

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