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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We visited Kalynivka, a small Ukrainian town two hours by train south-west of Kyiv. The local hospital, the pride of its inhabitants, is going to receive two generators financed by the French municipality of Sainte-Menehould. We’ve come to meet the Mayor, who gives us a warm welcome in his office.On February 24, Kalynivka was 250km from the nearest Russian troops. None the less, this is whe...
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We are delighted to invite you, as part of the Babylon Villeneuve project, to a special screening of the documentary War Diary, directed by Roman Liubyi from the Ukrainian collective Babylon’13.🪖🤳 This film takes us to the heart of the war in Ukraine through videos captured between 2014 and 2015 by Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers, directly from their phones. ...
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🗼🇺🇦 The Eiffel Tower illuminated in blue and yellow: A powerful gesture of solidarity with UkraineOn February 23, the Eiffel Tower lit up in blue and yellow, a strong symbolic act of support for the Ukrainian people. This initiative, led by the City of Paris and its Mayor Anne Hidalgo, marks the first anniversary of the large-scale invasion of Ukraine.💙💛 “Ukraine will prevail,” decla...
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One year.On February 24, 2022, Russia sent its army to attack Kyiv.On February 24, 2022, we knew that this Russian aggression signified the worst for the Ukrainian people.On February 24, 2022, Ukraine, its people and its President chose resistance and freedom.On February 24, 2022, we made a solemn commitment to be on Ukraine’s side in its fight for the right to exist.For an ...
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In the night of February 22, exactly one year ago, French and Ukrainians came together to protest against this invasion, that few wanted to happen but which seemed inevitable thanks to the threatening will of a single man. One year ago, we gathered anxious, incredulous, facing the relentless course of events that, hour after hour, were to lead to the subjugation of a people, the destruction of ...
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