Schedule

Kyiv Lviv Kharkiv Odesa
October 20
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11:30 AMKYIVOleksandr Sienkevych, Mayor of Mykolaiv (online)Topics of focus: Overall situation in the city; preparation for the heating season.
12:00 PMKYIVSerhii Kuiun, Director of A95 Consulting Group (in person)Topics of focus: On fuel taxes and prospects of the fuel market of Ukraine
01:00 PMKYIVDmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (in person)Topics of focus: The results of the first 100 days of work of the Ombudsman, peculiarities of work during war time, human rights challenges in the conditions of russian aggression.
02:30 PMKYIVMykola Lukashuk, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council, Deputy Chair of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Defense Council (online)Topics of focus: The current situation in the region, the consequences of missile strikes.
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1:00 PM (UPDATED)LVIVAndrii Hodyk, First Deputy Head of Lviv Oblast Military Administration
Roman Ivantsiv, Chief Technology Officer of Lvivoblenergo PrJSC 
Petro Chornopyskyi, Director of the Western Territorial Directorate for Grid Maintenance of Ukrenergo NPC 
(All: in person)  

 
Topics of issue: 
– How Lviv oblast provides power supply after the enemy’s missile attacks
– The energy consumption situation in the region
– Whether rotating power cuts can be avoided.
12:00 PMLVIVFedir Venislavskyi, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence (online)
Topics of issue:
·         Iran: weapons supply to russia and further diplomatic relations with Ukraine
·         The Verkhovna Rada adopted in the first reading a draft law on passing exams on the fundamentals of the Constitution, history and language for foreigners who wish to acquire Ukrainian citizenship
·         russian president imposes martial law on the annexed territories of Ukraine: what does it mean and the potential consequences
2:00 PMLVIVSPECIAL EVENT 
Discussion on the topic “A change of russian narratives: how to fight it”.
Participants:
Otar Dovzhenko, Head of the Independent Media Council
Maria Sahaidak, Expert at the Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security
Borys Potyatynyk, Professor at School of Journalism and Communication of Ukrainian Catholic University
Olga Guzhva, Project Manager – Ukraine Voices, Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR)
Andrii Drozda, journalist
Issues to be discussed include:
Whether/why do media like hype?
How to keep the West interested in Ukraine
Survive or die: how to save independent media in the absence of money. 

Duration: about 1 hour