president of ukraine, elected leaders and civil society the president of the european parliament, roberta matsola that no one deserves this award more than ukraine, ukrainians fight for values, defend democracy, freedom and the rule of law, risking their lives, these are her words with us in direct communication from brussels, correspondent dubivtsi hryhoriy zalova, the sakharov prize is a prestigious symbolic award has there ever been such a thing in the european parliament that the whole country was not honored? congratulations zhenya, so that the people of the country, uh, there has never been anything like this, they were an example. well, uh, two years ago, democratic the opposition in belarus received the sakharov prize in 2017 , and the democratic opposition in venezuela in 2003 was also enough, such an interesting episode when the united nations received the sakharov prize, it is interesting that this is not the first time that ukraine or ukrainians have received such a prize in 2018, the laureate was a ukrainian director oleg sentsov well , i would also like to add something here, or per