Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk: ‘I am afraid that the world will get used to the war in Ukraine as it did with the war in Syria’

Oleksandra Matviichuk has a special dress tucked away in the back of her closet, a very pretty one, reserved for one day in a hypothetical future when she will finally see the man she has been trying to bring to justice for a decade — Russian President Vladimir Putin — sitting in front of an international court. She often says that she will wear red lipstick, as she is wearing this Saturday in September. The 40-year-old Ukrainian began her battle against one of the most powerful men in the world in 2014, after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, but her work intensified in 2022, when Moscow invaded Ukraine. In 2022, her efforts were rewarded with the Nobel Peace Prize, which she won together with imprisoned Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski and the Russian human rights organization Memorial.

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