Schedule

Kyiv Lviv Kharkiv Odesa
August 29
TimeLOCATIONSpeakertopic
11:00 AMKyiv– Svitlana Merkulova, Representative of the I Will Definitely Return Families’ Community;

– Olena Belyachkova, Coordinator for Families of POWs and Missing Persons Groups, Media Initiative for Human Rights;

– Volodymyr Bilenko, Representative of the Search Department of the Central Department of Civil-Military Cooperation of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

– Anastasiia Shydlovska, Head of the Department of the Office for Missing Persons in Special Circumstances of the Secretariat of the Commissioner for Missing Persons in Special Circumstances of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

All in person. 
Between Bakhmut and russian colonies: The search for three thousand missing soldiers in battles with PMC Wagner
Participants:

Key topics:

– Why is it so difficult to determine the fate of those who went missing in battles with the russian private military company Wagner?
– Current search efforts and the tools that are still lacking;
– How to support families who have been left facing uncertainty for years.

12:00 PMKyiv Dmytro Kornienko, Political Scientist, Founder of the Resurgam International Information and Analytical Community;
All in person. 
Violations of diplomatic norms toward Ukraine and growing tolerance for sanctions evasion: New study exposes russian propaganda in Spanish media

Key topics:

– The scope and quality of Spanish media coverage of russia’s invasion of Ukraine;
– Spanish authors and experts flagged for breaching journalistic standards or promoting russian propaganda and placed in the Resurgam’s “red zone”;
– Key sources and cases of russian disinformation, fakes, and manipulations in Spanish-speaking media;
– Presentation of an open online platform for verifying the reliability of foreign media outlets and journalists, designed to reveal ties to russia or conflicts of interest.