Schedule

May 18
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9:30 AM Lviv Saviano Abreu, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 
– Margaret Harris, World Health Organization (WHO)  
– Victoria Andrievska, United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) 
– Paul Anthem, World Food Programme (WFP) 
– Viktoriia Mykhalchuk, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). (all in person)
SPECIAL EVENT

Joint Press Conference by Representatives of Five Organizations of the UN System in Ukraine “The Humanitarian Crisis due to the War in Ukraine and the Response Undertaken by the United Nations.”
11:00 AMLvivAlim Aliev, Co-founder of Crimea-SOS NGO and Deputy Director General of the Ukrainian Institute (online)Issues: 
– the life in Crimea under the russian occupation;
– the mobilization in the temporarily occupied peninsula; 
– the attitude of Crimea’s residents to the war;
– russians’ crimes against Crimean Tatars.  

Why is this important? The deportation (forced resettlement) of the Crimean Tatars to remote regions of the USSR started on May 18, 1944.  The ethnic cleansing was carried out by the state security agency of the USSR on orders of Joseph Stalin based on the Resolution of the State Defense Committee of the USSR of May 11, 1944.

11:00 AMKyivIgor Smelyansky, CEO at Ukrposhta (in person)Current topics: Restoration of infrastructure and operation of the post office in the liberated territories; paying out pensions; rules of postal deliveries; stamps — a new trend of the post office.
11:30 AMLvivPavlo Kyrylenko, Head of Donetsk Oblast Military Administration (online)Issues:
– combat activities in the oblast;
– shelling of Kramatorsk, Bakhmut, and other Ukrainian cities;
– the humanitarian situation in the region
1:00 PMLvivVadym Boichenko, Mayor of Mariupol (online) Issues: 
– the evacuation of the military personnel from Azovstal Steel Works;
– fighting in Mariupol;
– the humanitarian situation in the city.
1:00 PM KyivAkhtem Seitablayev, Ukrainian actor and director, fighter in a unit of the Territorial Defense Forces (in person)Current topics: Ukrainian cultural workers defending Ukraine; anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people; protest rallies and resistance on the occupied peninsula.
1:30 PMKyivAndriy Demchenko, Spokesperson of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (in person)Current topics: The situation on the border of Sumy and Chernihiv oblasts; reaching the administrative border in the Kharkiv oblast.
3:30 PMKyivOleksandr Motuzianyk, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (in person)Current topic: Current situation on the frontline
4:00 PMKyivLiza Tatarinova, director (in person)Current topic: Presentation of movie “Mariupol. Chronicles of hell”