Women Speakers of EU parliaments and of Ukraine meet in Brussels to discuss the humanitarian situation and assistance to refugees from Ukraine in EU member states. Speakers from Czechia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, and Ukraine, among others, visit a Ukrainian civil society hub and attend the opening of the exhibition of the Polish Sejm “Ukrainian Woman”.

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Meeting of Women Speakers of Parliaments of the European Union: Visit to the Ukrainian civil society hub and opening of the exhibition of the Polish Sejm “Ukrainian Woman"

SOUNDBITE (English), Natalia MELNYK, H, Unfortunatelly, we had a very hard missile attack on all crucial cities and civilian infrastructures of Ukraine. And for this, may I kindly ask you to have couple of seconds for the recognition for all deaths and injures of this inhuman attack of Russian to my country/

SOUNDBITE (Polish), Elzbieta Witek, Speaker of the Polish Sejm , <p>[00:01:20] This exhibition today which I have great pleasure to open shows different faces and different faces of Ukraine. On the one hand, these are images showing immense pain suffering concern for your loved ones. They show Ukrainian women who are fleeing Soviet rule or watching their loved ones die. But on the other hand, we have the face of a Ukrainian woman who is extremely brave determined to protect her closest children her family but also to serve her homeland. And you will see on these boards. Women who are mothers who are going through something unimaginably difficult must leave them in an instant. Because all they have sometimes only one is a child on their hands and flee far from the war to flee first of all to the Polish border [00:02:45][84.7]</p>

SOUNDBITE (null), Olena Kondratiuk, Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, <p>It is a great honor for us today. Therefore, let me, on behalf of the Ukrainian people, on behalf of the Parliament of Ukraine to the President of Ukraine, thank you for this event when we can be here at the Ukrainian House in the Ukrainian Hub with the support of the European Parliament. In fact, with the support of our closest best friends partners and we can face the truth because all the photos that are here know it is above all possible pain that we through ourselves carry from the other side is such a hope </p>

Ambiance shots of the exhibition (6 shots)