Schedule

May 30
START TIMELOCATIONSPEAKERSTOPICS / DESCRIPTION
11:00 AMKyivSerhii Kuiun, Director of A95 Consultancy Group (in person)Key topics: Fuel shortage; the cancellation of the state regulation of fuel prices.
11:30 AMLvivDaria Herasymchuk, Advisor and Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Rights of Children and Children Rehabilitation (online)Current topics:
– How many children had been affected after the onset of russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine
– Children protection and rehabilitation programs in Ukraine
– International assistance for children affected by the war in Ukraine
 
Why this is interesting: June 1 is the International Children’s Day
12:00 PMLvivYuliia Zhovtiak, Director of the State Employment Center of Ukraine (online)Current topics:
– The war and unemployment: How many people are registered with employment centers
– Job placement and the most demanded professions during the war
– Forecasts of Ukraine’s labor market.
12:30 PMKyivIvan Fedorov, Mayor of Melitopol (online)Key topic: The current situation in the occupied city
 1:30 PMKyivParticipants: Tetiana Kharko, sister of Serhii Volynskyi, commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade;
Sandra Krotevych, sister of major Bohdan Krotevych, executive officer and first deputy commander of Azov Regiment;

Olena Chornobay, wife of a military serviceman of Donetsk Border Detachment;
Nataliia Zarytska, wife of a soldier of Azov Regiment (in person)
Briefing of families of Mariupol’s defenders

Key topic: The protection of rights of POWs and compliance with the Geneva Conventions in their respect

2:30 PMLvivNataliia Mykolska,
Co-Founder and CEO of DATTALION, Expert in Strategic Transformations (online);
Liliia Tymoshenko,
Co-Founder of DATTALION, General Administrative Director of the initiative (in person);
Nataliia Isaienko,
Entrepreneur, a cafe owner in Kharkiv, who lost her home and business, and her granddad in Mariupol (in person);
Svitlana Ivashchenko, witness from Mariupol
 (in person)
Why this is interesting:
The DATTALION (Ukrainian Data Battalion) is a women-founded and managed project supported by international volunteers fighting the information war.

During the press briefing, the initiative co-founders will talk about the impact of the russo-Ukrainian war on them and explain:
– How the DATTALION uses photo and video footage from its database to inform leading international media about events in Ukraine
– How the DATTALION database enables journalists and directors to discover the sequence of war crimes by russians
– What the women’s contribution is to Ukraine’s resistance against russia’s invasion.
2:30 PMKyivOleksandr Motuzianyk, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (in person)Current topic: The current situation on the frontline of the russo-Ukrainian war