H.E. Ms Larysa Gerasko:

It is really difficult to talk about peace or what happens after it when it is not in place right now. We are thinking about our civil society. We will face many challenges, the first of which is mental health. We are working now to establish centres to help Ukrainians with mental health issues. Almost all people have severe body trauma. We can imagine that when there is peace so many soldiers and defenders will return from the front line and the battlefield with post-traumatic syndrome. All of them will have it and we must deal with it.

We are talking about the same thing but Senator Stephenson calls it civil society while I say "society" or "all civilians". Without any exceptions, all of us have got this trauma because there are bombardments and air raids every day. Of course there is trauma. We believe in a peace solution. We need peace and to continue our normal life. Ireland will be one of the countries we are very interested in learning from with respect to the experience of how to bring about reconciliation. That will be an issue for us.