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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Sarah Glynn

Meet the Ukrainian MP on a mission in search of peace

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 29, 2021 - MP Anna Skorokhod delivers a speech during a regular sitting of the Ukrainian parliament, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. (Photo credit should read Hennadii Minchenko/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images).

UKRAINIAN MP Anna Skorokhod is a woman with a mission. I met her at last week’s Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where she had come to persuade delegates of the urgent necessity of a peace deal with Russia, and she agreed to talk to me for the Sunday National.

Skorokhod’s call is not the product of political ideology – she was in ­Strasbourg at the invitation of the Left Group, but her own party, For the Future, is in the same group as the British Conservatives. Rather, she is driven by bitter reality.

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