Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Urge Allies to Help Ukraine ‘Win Fast’
It may seem unusual for human-rights advocates to call for an escalation in a war. But that’s the message three Nobel Peace Prize laureates brought to Washington this week.
As the conflict in Ukraine enters a critical phase, its allies must speed the delivery of materiel, enforce harsher sanctions against Russia, and make quicker decisions, says Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Ukrainian human-rights lawyer and recipient of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. Allies’ mindset, Matviichuk tells TIME during a visit to its Washington bureau, must change from “Let’s help Ukraine not to fail” to “Let’s help Ukraine to win fast.”
Matviichuk cast the plea in moral terms: Every day that passes in Ukraine there are more battlefield deaths and more deaths in occupied territories. “The problem is we have no time,” Matviichuk says. While she didn’t list what specific weapons she feels are needed, Ukrainian officials have asked allies to send longer-range missiles, ramp up the deployment of jets, and speed the delivery of tanks for the Ukrainian army’s ongoing counteroffensive.