Female heads of Parliament of EU countries to visit Polish-Ukrainian border

They are also planning to visit refugee hubs in Chelm, Lublin Voivodeship, and near Warsaw, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“The war in Ukraine has a female face,” Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland Elżbieta Witek stated at a briefing in Warsaw.

In her words, women and children are those who are suffering the most from the Russian armed aggression against Ukraine. More than 2.8 million Ukrainian refugees have fled to Poland since the Russian invasion started, and they need to receive humanitarian and psychological aid.

According to Witek, the female heads of Parliament of EU countries are mothers and grandmothers themselves, and can understand the role of the Ukrainian women, their suffering, tortures faced within the occupied territories, and uncertainty about the need to flee abroad, escaping the war.

Witek noted that Poland and other EU countries should provide Ukrainian women and children with as much aid as possible, so that the Ukrainian men, who are now heroically defending their country and the entire Europe, would not have to worry about their loved ones.

Witek stressed that, during that visit, the female heads of Parliament of EU countries would discuss the further aid that the EU could provide to Ukraine and Ukrainians in different aspects.

According to Witek, Ukraine cannot lose this war. Otherwise, Putin will not stop and move forward.

“We must make every effort to help Ukraine and stop the war there,” Witek added.

The female heads of Parliament from Poland, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Spain, as well as Verkhovna Rada Deputy Chairperson Olena Kondratiuk, are expected to take part in this visit.

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