3 April, 2023
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 arrive in Ovroutch after a two hour drive, and are welcomed by the Mayor and Vice-Mayor of the municipality, with whom the friendship links created virtually and subsequently in France guarantee a joyful reunion! We are honoured to be offered a traditional welcome with special bread. Before the war this municipality of 35,000 people was known for its landscape of fields and forest, rare stones and touri...
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29 March, 2023
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 authorities through emergency humanitarian aid.The delegation was received on 27 March by Mr. Benjamin Haddad, president of the France-Ukraine parliamentary friendship group, who presented the work of the National Assembly in favour of Ukraine, and then by his counterparts in the Senate, Mr. Joël Guerriau and Mrs. Annick Billau, who testified to the sincere solidarity of their institution with th...
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28 March, 2023
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 materialized through funding two generators, amounting to €3,000, to support Pokrovsk residents facing frequent power outages caused by the war. These generators, transported via Poland, were installed as early as November 2022, providing essential relief to a population enduring extremely challenging conditions.The visit began with a reception at the town hall, attended by Hervé Jochmans, deputy mayor o...
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