INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
There is currently no diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine, a co-founder of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Russian rights organization
Memorial said Sunday."I am absolutely convinced that there is not a diplomatic solution with Putin's regime, so long as it is still
there," said Irina Scherbakova."The solution that there will now be is a military one," said Scherbakova, who was presented with an award
for her human rights work at a ceremony in Hamburg, Germany.There would ultimately be some form of diplomatic resolution to the conflict,
said.Hasty calls for peace were "childish," she said, adding that things would not return to the way they were before the outbreak of the
with the Marion Doenhoff Prize for her years of work on human rights in her home country by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.Scherbakova's
"a victory for Greater Russian expansionism," said Scholz, who has faced repeated criticism for not doing more to support the Ukrainian war
be presented with the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday December 10.Memorial was awarded the prize along with fellow campaigners the
Centre for Civil Liberties in Ukraine and the Belarussian activist, Ales Bialiatski.One of the foremost Russian civil liberties
organizations, Memorial has worked for decades to shed light on terrors from the era of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, while also compiling
2021 and Scherbakova left Moscow following the invasion of Ukraine
