Schedule

Kyiv Lviv Kharkiv Odesa
January 13
TimeLOCATIONSpeakertopic
12:30 PMKyiv– Andrii Demchenko, Spokesman of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (in person). Ukraine border update: Winter holiday travel and frontline areas in focus

Key topics: 

– Border crossing trends and conditions during the Christmas and New Year holiday season;
– Availability and operations of warming centers in the border area;
– The security and humanitarian situation in frontline cities, along with developments at the border with Belarus. 

1:00 PMKyiv– Viktor Vitovetskyi, Director of the Department for Organization of Civil Protection Measures at the State Emergency Service of Ukraine;
– Nataliia Yashan, Head of the Medical Support Department at the State Emergency Service. 
Guidelines for the General Public on Staying Safe in Record Low Temperatures from the State Emergency Service

Key topics:

– Staying safe and taking precautions during dangerously low subzero temperatures
– Recognizing the signs of hypothermia and giving immediate first aid
– Using heaters, generators, electric space heaters, and other power equipment safely;
– Operation and set up of ‘points of invincibility.fety rules on ice and water bodies this winter;
– When the weather is likely to take a turn for the worse nationwide.