Livestream coverage of the Kyiv Post’s “Bringing Peace to Syria & Ukraine” conference starts at 1 p.m. on June 18 from the InterContinental Kyiv hotel.
The first-of-its-kind in Ukraine conference brings together 14 top experts on the wars in Syria and Ukraine. Both nations are facing sustained attacks from Russian military forces that have killed thousands of people, displaced millions of others and sent still millions fleeing the nations and becoming refugees.
Kyiv Post chief editor Brian Bonner will moderate the three panel discussions. More information here:
Livestream coverage of Kyiv Post’s “Bringing Peace to Syria & Ukraine” conference
1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. – Russian Intervention
Tobias Schneider, research fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute and Editor of Syria in Context
Anna Borshchevskaya, specialist on Russian influence in Middle East
Salam Kawakibi, director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
Christina Doborovolska, research at InformNapalm
Vadym Skibitskyi, deputy head of the chief directorate of intelligences of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense
3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. – Averting Humanitarian Catastrophe
Wael Aleji, spokesman for Syrian Network for Human Rights
Mohammed Alhammadi, head of the Syrian NGO Alliance in Gaziantep, Syria
Nicholas Hawton, diplomatic adviser, Near and Middle East, for the International Committee of the Red Cross
Mamar Merzouk, team leader, Syria Crisis at European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office
4:45 p.m. to 6 p.m. – Steps for Lasting Peace
Hugues Mingarelli, European Union Ambassador to Ukraine
Ernst Reichel, German Ambassador to Ukraine
Oleksandr Bogomolov, Director at Institute of Oriental Studies
Yonet C. Tezel, Turkish Ambassador to Ukraine
