Ukrainians receive Dissident Human Rights Award for defending freedom and human rights

Olena Zelenska announced this on Facebook.

In Washington, at the Memorial to the Victims of Communism, Olena Zelenska received the Dissident Human Rights Award for all the people of Ukraine.

"Since 2015, the award has been awarded to activists and dissidents - representatives of enslaved peoples for their courage in defending human rights and freedom. This year, for the first time, it was awarded not to a specific individual, but to all the people of Ukraine for the "courageous struggle for freedom against Russia's aggressive war", she wrote.

Zelenska noted that the Russian Federation continues to use Stalinist methods against Ukrainians.

"The system that attacks you can be called anything you want. But we can easily recognize totalitarianism by its main features - aggression, violence, as well as complete devaluation of human life. This is exactly what Ukraine is dealing with in the form of the Russian Federation. Russia has not been called communist for a long time, but they still practice Stalinist methods of management and enslavement of other peoples", Olena Zelenska emphasized.

The wife of the President of Ukraine also reminded the world that Ukrainians are not only fighting for their freedom.

"At the cost of heroic efforts, we are fighting not only for our freedom. We are fighting so that Stalin's Great Terror is no longer used anywhere and ever in the civilized world. This is what today's award, which I am taking to Ukraine, testifies to", she concluded.