A call for peace from Ukraine.

“We want peace and freedom, and we are strong in unity!”

These are the testimonies of our CBRN Ukrainian partners, a call for peace launched during the International Women’s Day 2022.

Countless innocent people are killed every day, millions are trying to survive the bomb-raids of the Russian aviation and the gunfights in the streets. Almost 3 million people have been forced to flee Ukraine and more than 2 million have been displaced within the country.

The horror of this war and of all wars in our world is reflected in the terrified looks of the children, in the despair of those who have found the bodies of their beloved ones under the ruins, in the empty stare of those who have lost everything. The atrocity of wars is expressed by human beings transformed into fighting machine, deprived of their sensitivity to death and human suffering because they are in survival mode and must obey senseless orders.

War is just the victory of barbarism over humaneness.

Kateryna Pavlova, Hanna Shepel, Natalia Klos and Alona Samsonenko (members of the Black Sea Women Network in Nuclear): their words resonate in unison with the calls for peace from millions of people facing the brutality of wars in too many countries of our planet. These words must be the mission of the humankind.