by Peace | Sep 16, 2025 | Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
On Thursday morning, I read on the Dutch news website NOS that 15 people had been killed in a major air strike on Kyiv, including four children. An EU building had also been hit. My thoughts went out to Yurii Sheliazhenko, my pacifist Ukrainian peace activist friend...
by Peace | Dec 17, 2024 | kernwapens, Russia, Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
After more than a thousand days of internationally condemned Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine and more than a million casualties, the senseless war in Ukraine must end. Ukrainian Quakers proposed that a Christmas truce could be introduced to start peace talks...
by Peace | Oct 10, 2024 | Brazil, China, kernwapens, Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
Ukrainian President Zelensky plans to present his victory plan on Saturday. He will do so during a meeting with allies at the US airbase Ramstein in western Germany. According to NOS correspondent Christiaan Paauwe, the victory plan would mainly amount to deploying...
by Peace | Jun 11, 2024 | Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
Saturday 15 June sees the start of the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland. The summit is aimed at heads of state; NGOs are not invited. The aim is to contribute to fair and lasting peace in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Zelensky’s peace proposal and other peace...
by Peace | Sep 5, 2023 | human rights, Ukraine, United Nations
Peace SOS followed online the press conference of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine. The statements below by the Committee are taken from their press release. Erik Møse, Chair of the Commission: “First, we visited Uman in the Cherkasy region and then...
by Peace | Aug 6, 2023 | Free, Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
Peace SOS is shocked by the decision of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to charge peace activist Yurii Sheliazhenko with ‘’justification of Russian aggression’’ and to search his apartment. The charge is based solely on Sheliazhenko’s Peace Agenda for Ukraine...
