On May 8 and 9, 2024, during Europe Day, Stand With Ukraine participated in the second edition of the International Summit of Cities and Regions in Kyiv. This event provided an opportunity to strengthen cooperation between Europe and Ukraine and to reaffirm European support in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Representatives from 18 countries gathered in Kyiv for the summit, which i...
Learn more
We are delighted to invite you, as part of the Babylon Villeneuve project, to the French premiere of the film Poem for Ordinary People by the Ukrainian collective Babylon'13, with director Ivan Sautkin in attendance!🎥 Poem for Ordinary People is a poignant film that avoids depicting the horrors of war, instead focusing on the intimate lives of its characters.👥 This documentary delves ...
Learn more
On April 11, 2024, Ukrainian mayors and representatives of the European Union participated in the International Summit of Mayors held in Dănceni, Moldova. The event centered on fostering cooperation between European and Ukrainian cities, with Stand With Ukraine in attendance.Among the 480 participants, around 60 were mayors and representatives from Ukrainian communities, seeking to strength...
Learn more
Russian wrestler Milad Alirzaev has been admitted to the Paris Olympics on Friday, April 6, during the qualifying tournament in Baku.Alirzaev openly supports Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.First, he participated in a propaganda tournament held in “memory of Russian hero Lieutenant General Kutuzov.” Roman Kutuzov was a Russian officer involved in the invasion of Ukraine, killed by ...
Learn more
March 2024. The Stand with Ukraine team met with Ukrainian athletes Valeriia Tereta (flatwater canoe/kayak) and Viktor Legkodukh (shot put) at Lviv City Hall to discuss the impact of the war on their lives and the unacceptable participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Paris Olympic Games.Viktor Legkodukh, a young officer, suffered a spinal injury at the start of the war in...
Learn more
March 2024. The Stand with Ukraine team visited Unbroken, the rehabilitation center in Lviv that provides medical care and prosthetics to those injured and evacuated from the frontlines.Christina Klymko, project manager at Unbroken, gave us a tour of Ukraine’s largest hospital complex, the Clinical Municipal Communal Emergency Hospital, which has treated over 80,000 patients since the s...
Learn more
In March 2024, the Mayor of Paris’ 18th Arrondissement Traveled to Kyiv to Sign a Partnership with Podil District to Strengthen Their CooperationOn March 28, Eric Lejoindre, Mayor of the 18th arrondissement of Paris, signed a declaration of intent with the Podil District during his visit to Kyiv. This signing formalizes the relationship initiated in the spring of 2023, which notably allowed...
Learn more
At the end of March 2024, the Stand with Ukraine team visited Uzhhorod, a Ukrainian city near the Slovakian border in the Zakarpattia Oblast. With a population of 115,000 before Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, Uzhhorod has become a hub of solidarity, welcoming several million displaced people in the early months of the war.We met with Nataliya and her team from the Ukrain...
Learn more
🚨 Seriously?Yet another “very neutral” Russian taekwondo athlete! This is becoming a pattern!When will the IOC finally take action to ban these brutes from the Paris Olympics? ❌Polina Khan, recently qualified for the 2024 Games, openly supports the war in Ukraine.Not only is she a member of the Russian military, but she also “liked” two Instagram posts supporting the invasion:...
Learn more
Tatiana Minina, a Russian taekwondo athlete who supports the war in Ukraine, has qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games.Following the qualification last Saturday of Maksim Khramtsov, another Putin supporter, Tatiana Minina's participation would further discredit the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which seems unable to enforce its own rules.Minina is a member of the Russi...
Learn more
