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In light of Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine, women from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus have come to the forefront in the fight against lies and propaganda about the war. Women have created solidarity groups and a huge resistance movement against war. Women have long called on the UN to flesh out how to implement Resolution 1325 (on women, peace, and security), as well as to impose sanctions on countries that have not implemented the resolution. But there is still a tremendous gap. This panel considered how women from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus will be able to unite in the struggle for peace, what resources are lacking, what the press hasn鈥檛 shown, and what help is demanded by the women鈥檚 anti-war movement.

Selected Quotes

Alena Popova

鈥淚 strongly believe in our sisterhood and I鈥檓 totally sure that if we unite all the female projects, feminist projects, and women initiatives, we can win. The major questions that we are thinking about now is not just how to stop this crazy war but how to help refugees. This is a first question for all of us. How to fundraise some money for the projects like 鈥楬elp to Leave,鈥� for example. This project was founded by the people from Russia and Belarus. As I understood, some people who are from Ukraine are there now. So, they have more than 300 volunteers from all over the world who help Ukrainian refugees.鈥�

鈥淲e launched the petition for women, peace, and security. We did it at the third day of this war and we collected more than 50,000 signatures of Russians鈥� People signed by their own against this war. The principles of this petition are devoted to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, which said that women should be on board, so when anybody discussed any questions in terms of peace and security鈥� we as women should be on board.鈥�

Alisa Grinshpan

"Since 1994, in Belarus, we have had one President, Alexander Lukashenko鈥攚hich I do not consider even as a human being. Almost two years ago, in August 2020, after another rigged election, my people started to protest peacefully on the streets of our cities. As of March 9th, 2022, the United Nations鈥� report of massive repression in Belarus in 2020, shows that over 13,000 people were arrested during the first five days of August 2020. And many of them were beaten and transferred to police stations and pre-trial detention centers.鈥�

鈥淎s of today, there are over 1,100 political prisoners in Belarus and ten people died during the protest. And I believe that history has a tendency to repeat itself and today the same thing is happening in Russia. It feels like dictators were just practicing in Belarus to see how many people they can imprison, how many people they can injure鈥攐r even kill鈥攚ith no consequences whatsoever.鈥�

Iuliia Sergeieva

鈥淚 would like to say thank you to everyone who supports us in this difficult moment. Indeed, it鈥檚 the hardest time in our 31 years of independence鈥� and the most difficult time since World War II鈥� I want to be precisely sharp, straightforward, and truthful because the world deserves to know the truth and knowing the truth is one of the ways, and spreading the word is one of the ways, to stop this genocide of the Ukrainian nation鈥� So, what is happening in Ukraine? No, it鈥檚 not a special military operation in Donbas aimed at the militarization and the de-nazification of our nation, it is a full-scale war.鈥�

鈥淚n terms of refugees, according to the UN, the number is still rising鈥攊t鈥檚 three and a half million already鈥攁mong which, 1.4 million children and 160,000 foreigners. More than that, six and a half million people were internally relocated within Ukraine. Regarding Russia, the official figures in Ukraine are 15,600 who have died鈥� These people, they were someone鈥檚 husband, someone鈥檚 brother, and someone鈥檚 son. I鈥檓 very sure that it is in the Russian and Belarussian mother鈥檚 hands, women鈥檚 hands, to stop men from killing our people.鈥�

Marina Mentusova

鈥淭he war in Ukraine has been and will be catastrophic for women and girls across the region. Accounts are horrific and despite the profound pain and conflict that this conflict has caused, we in the region, are coming in solidarity. And this is both at a personal level and an organizational level. I am in touch with my friends who are fleeing Ukraine, daily on the phone鈥� when one of them finally got on the plane to get here to the United States I was crying just because I didn鈥檛 believe it would happen.鈥澛�

鈥淚 want this war to be over, I want all of us to rebuild our societies. We are a force that can do that. And we will do that, we鈥檙e doing it. But I think we also need to see the bigger picture, that women in the world and now in our region, are not protected from violence鈥攁ny form of violence.鈥�

Elena Servettaz

鈥淯ntil recently, we Russian journalists have done all we could to inform Russians about the terrible war Putin has started against Ukraine. My colleagues who remain in Russia will not be able to continue that work. The Russian state has de facto criminalized the journalist profession鈥� I hope you have seen鈥� or try to visit the Novaya Gazeta website and there is a great report from Elena Kostyuchenko, who is a woman. She was showing this atrocity of war鈥� in Mykolaiv. But hundreds, if not maybe thousands, of independent journalists have already left the country.鈥�

鈥淧utin would probably be horrified if he learned how many people in the world, who speak Russian, do not want to be associated with a Russian Federation who bomb residential buildings, children鈥檚 hospitals, and maternity wards in a neighboring country in their name. The world does not associate them with Putin either.鈥�