Last Monday, Stand With Ukraine visited Uman, a mid-sized city in central Ukraine, where Russian missiles struck an apartment building in the middle of the night, killing 23 people.This visit provided an opportunity to meet with the city’s emergency services, who worked tirelessly for 36 hours, first battling the fire caused by the explosion and then evacuating the injured and cle...
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Stand With Ukraine, in collaboration with the United for Ukraine Network, Eastern Circles, DiXi Group, Urgewald, and Friends of the Earth Europe, co-organized a roundtable discussion on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at the European Parliament in Brussels. The topic was sanctions against the Russian nuclear industry.The conference brought together experts...
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Stand With Ukraine attended the Cities and Regions Summit on April 19-20, held in Kyiv and Ukraine's war-affected regions, to strengthen ties between international, particularly European, and Ukrainian municipalities. This event, organized by the Ukrainian government, aimed to solidify partnerships to support Ukraine's reconstruction and contribute more broadly to the European integration of Uk...
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We are delighted to invite you, as part of the Babylon Villeneuve project, to a special screening of the documentary Fragile Memory, directed by Igor Ivanko and produced by the Babylon’13 collective.Synopsis: Leonid Burlaka, a Ukrainian filmmaker from Odesa and recipient of the Order of Merit of Ukraine, made a lasting impact on cinema with his films, widely shown during and after the Sov...
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Last Monday, the association Stand with Ukraine travelled to Ovroutch, a small Ukrainian town close to the Belarusian frontier, accompanied by Mr Thibaut Guignard, Mayor of the municipality of Ploeuc l’Hermitage and Vice-President of the Urban Area of Saint-Brieuc. This visit came a week after a journey by the Vice-Mayor of Ovroutch accompanied by other Ukrainian Mayors to Saint-Brieuc. We arr...
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Stand with Ukraine welcomes the visit to France from 27 to 29 March of a delegation of four Ukrainian mayors, organised with the Ukrainian NGO ANTS with the aim of developing Franco-Ukrainian cooperation at local level. This visit is one of the concrete outcomes of the "Lights for Winter" campaign led by the association since last November to strengthen links between French and Ukrainian local ...
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On March 27, 2023, Svitlana Spazheva, mayor of Pokrovsk, a city in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, visited Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne in Seine-et-Marne, marking the beginning of a strong partnership between the two municipalities. This meeting was made possible thanks to Stand With Ukraine, which facilitated the exchange as part of the French municipality's support efforts.Moret's commitment material...
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🎙️ On March 21, 2023, a conference titled "Ukraine and Its Past: The Holodomor" was held at the French National Assembly. It was organized by MPs Anne Genetet (Renaissance), Boris Vallaud (Socialist Party), Jean-Louis Bourlanges (MoDem), Valérie Rabault (Socialist Party), Cyrielle Chatelain (Europe Ecology – The Greens), and Benjamin Haddad (Renaissance), President of the France-Ukraine Friends...
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With the campaign ‘Lights for winter’ bringing together in recent months the towns of Sarcelles (France) and Ichnia (Ukraine) to send generators to Ukraine, the two towns were able to meet recently through a video-conference organized by Stand with Ukraine.The Mayor of Ichnia Mrs Olena Buturlym, accompanied by representatives of the local economy, described the small rural town of 10,000 pe...
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As part of their participation in the campaign ‘Lights for winter’ the Urban Area of Saint-Brieuc and its Ukrainian partner, the town of Ovroutch, met for the first time through a video conference last Friday.A town of 15,000 people near the Belarusian frontier, the municipality of Ovroutch organized its defense against Russia’s offensive in the earliest weeks of the invasion. Recalling thi...
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