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Sasha Vakulina

‘Ukraine is paying the highest price to return home to European values,' Oleksandra Matviichuk says

“For three centuries, we were in (the) shadow of Russian Empire. And I’m here to say, Europe, we are back,” Ukrainian human rights defender Oleksandra Matviichuk declared as she received the European Order of Merit in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday.

Visibly emotional, Matviichuk said Ukraine is “returning home to European values.”

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