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Kyiv Lviv Kharkiv Odesa
September 25
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10:00 AMKyiv– Yevhen Slavnyi, Editor-in-Chief and News Director, UNITED24 Media (in person);
– Tetiana Nikolaienko, Member of the Supervisory Board of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine; NAKO Senior Researcher (in person);
– Tetiana Chabaniuk, Head of Education Projects, Molfar Intelligence Institute (in person);
– Ivana Stradner, Special Correspondent, KyivPost; Research Fellow, Barish Center for Media Integrity (online);
– Min Hsuan Wu, Co-founder and CEO, Doublethink Lab, Taiwan (online);
– Yurii Poita, Head of the Asian Section, The New Geopolitics Research Network.		Democracies in the crosshairs: How Ukraine, the EU, the US, and Taiwan are defending the information space
Participants:

Key topics:
– Challenges of information warfare through the lens of international experience;
– Anti-Ukrainian propaganda on Chinese social media;
– Halted U.S.-EU cooperation in countering disinformation from russia, China, and Iran.

11:00 AM Kyiv– Dmytro Karabchuk, Founder and CEO of the NGO “Forest Initiatives and Communities” (in person);
– Oleh Storchous, Lawyer, Expert in Forest Legislation (in person);
– Nataliia Kaplia, Legal Expert at the NGO “Forest Initiatives and Communities” (in person);
– Leonid Ilchenko, Information and Analytical Security Specialist of the Department of Internal and Economic Security at the SFE “Forests of Ukraine” (in person);
– Taras Lymar, Head of the Forest Protection and Conservation Department at the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine (in person);
– Representative of the State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine (online).		Findings of an independent study: “Why is there a lack of objective statistics on illegal logging in Ukraine?”
Participants:

Key topics:
– Financial losses to the state budget due to illegal logging;
– Estimated scale of illegal logging activities;
– Illegal logging as one of the most critical challenges in forestry management within the context of European integration and the implementation of the new EU Regulation.
ng international attention on Crimea and other occupied territories;
– Security and environmental risks from Crimea’s militarization in the Black Sea–Azov region and across Europe;
– Why building a new security framework for the region is urgent;
– The international community’s role in ensuring accountability for russia’s crimes in occupied territories.