Media Center Ukraine Producer Department

Participants:

– Natalia Butyrska, expert on the Asia-Pacific region, senior analyst at the New Europe Center;

– Takashi Hirano, journalist at the national news agency UKRINFORM;

– Yuriy Poita, senior associate analyst at MERICS (online);

– Hanna Hopko, chair of the board of the “ANTS” Network for the Protection of National Interests;

– Moderator: Serhiy Solodkyi, Director of the New Europe Center.

Topics for discussion:

– Global geopolitical shifts, the energy crisis caused by the war in the Middle East, and changes in Washington’s policy as factors influencing Asian partners’ support for Ukraine;

– Why support from Asian partners cannot be taken for granted and requires ongoing effort;

– Ukraine and Taiwan: limitations on cooperation and the influence of China’s position;

– Why Japan and South Korea consider it necessary to maintain channels of communication with russia despite their support for Ukraine;

– Ukraine’s strategy regarding its Asian flank: how to ensure long-term support.

The event will feature simultaneous interpretation into English.

• Kyiv

If you are interested in this topic, you can obtain the subjects’ contacts from the Producer Department of Media Center Ukraine.

Tag is about movement, contact, passing something on, and creating a safe space — and then repeating the cycle. This logic of shared, continuous action has become the metaphor and central theme of the closing event of the project “Strengthening Comprehensive Reintegration Support for Returned Children.”

When it comes to reintegrating a child who has experienced occupation, forced displacement, or isolation in frontline communities, there are no minor details. Every part of the process matters. It involves everyone — from a school psychologist and a community case manager to relevant ministries. If one link in the chain fails, a child may be left alone with trauma whose effects can last for years. That is why the event aims to bring together all stakeholders involved in the process on a single platform, with the child’s own voice serving as the starting point.

Topics for discussion:

• Teenagers Tymofii, Olia and Serhii will share their personal experiences. The discussion will be moderated by Kyrylo Nevdokha, Head of the “DIYMO” Children and Youth Office under Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy.
• The launch of a school-based reintegration mentoring programme as a systemic response to the challenges of war.
• The experience of psychologists, case managers and social workers.
• Presentation of the analytical study “Returning Childhood: Psychological Support for Children on the Path to Reintegration,” focusing on the psychological and psychosocial reintegration of children in Ukraine.

Panel discussions will feature representatives of government institutions, international organizations and experts, including Olena Rozvadovska (co-founder of the charitable foundation Voices of Children), Iryna Tuliakova (Coordination Center for the Development of Family-Based Care), Oleksandra Dvoretska (the President of Ukraine’s Bring Kids Back UA initiative), Van Chi Pham (UNICEF Ukraine), Anastasiia Konovalova (Deputy Minister of Education and Science), and Member of Parliament Roman Hryshchuk.

Participants will also be able to explore children’s stories through the photo exhibition “A Thread: Transformation Instead of Brokenness,” created by the Voices of Children charitable foundation together with photographer Marta Syrko.

The event will take place in Kyiv on June 23. Journalists can review the full programme of the event. Accreditation is required to attend.

• children
• occupation
• Kyiv

If you are interested in this topic, you can obtain the subjects’ contacts from the Producer Department of Media Center Ukraine.