Media Center Ukraine

Media Center Ukraine Our goals are to support civil society and contribute to Ukraine’s recovery.

Media Center Ukraine is a civic initiative dedicated to supporting the media and independent journalists in covering the war waged by russia against the Ukrainian people.

Dear colleagues, friends, and partners,Starting in August, Media Center Ukraine will transition to a project-based model...
31/07/2026

Dear colleagues, friends, and partners,

Starting in August, Media Center Ukraine will transition to a project-based model.

Going forward, the Media Center Ukraine team will focus on developing and delivering communication, media, and public-interest projects. At the same time, we are concluding our work as an open press center, which, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, has served as a platform for briefings, press conferences, and meetings between Ukrainian and international journalists.

Media Center Ukraine began its work in March 2022, during one of the most challenging periods in Ukraine’s modern history. From the very beginning, we worked alongside numerous Ukrainian and international organizations to create a space where the world could receive timely and reliable information about events in Ukraine.

Over the past four years, Media Center Ukraine has welcomed more than 4,000 journalists from around the world. We have served as a platform for government institutions, civil society, international partners, experts, and everyone working to ensure that Ukraine’s voice is heard.

Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, and Odesa are cities where Ukrainian and international journalists have always been able to count on important events and professional support.

We are sincerely grateful to everyone who has been part of this shared effort: our partners, speakers, journalists, the Media Center Ukraine team, and our friends. Thanks to this collaboration, we have been able to organize hundreds of events and help the world better understand Ukraine during the war.

We would like to extend a special thank you to our partners at Ukrinform English and Суспільне Новини, without whose support we would not have achieved these results. We are also deeply grateful to the donors who supported Media Center Ukraine throughout different stages of its journey. In particular, we would like to thank the European Union in Ukraine for providing institutional support to the project over the past two years.

A new chapter lies ahead. We will continue working on projects that support Ukrainian civil society and advance issues that are important to Ukraine, including the country’s accession to the European Union.

Ukraine needs to focus its efforts on breaking out of this logistical dead end, because we will have no future as a coun...
31/07/2026

Ukraine needs to focus its efforts on breaking out of this logistical dead end, because we will have no future as a country — analysts

Researchers warn that Ukraine is in a complete geographical dead end, despite being in the heart of Europe.

Vadym Denysenko, head of the Business Capital (Ділова Столиця) analytical center, made this statement during a briefing at the Media Center Ukraine.

💬 “We are at an impasse in terms of logistics, specifically regarding the existing trans-European and trans-Atlantic corridors. There are nine transport corridors around us at various stages of development, involving dozens of countries. Only Ukraine, due to circumstances largely unrelated to the war, finds itself at an impasse”.

According to analysts, this will be a major problem for our country over the next 5–10 years if Ukraine does not become a participant in these corridors now:

💬 “We will not have access to the new economic world that is changing before our very eyes.”

31/07/2026

Міжнародні транспортні коридори обходять Україну: як вийти з географічного глухого кута
Учасники:
– Вадим Денисенко, керівник аналітичного центру Ділова столиця;
– Ігар Тишкевич, співзасновник мережі Research Solutions
Всі – персональна участь.
Теми для обговорення:
– Девʼять міжнародних транспортних коридорів обходять Україну: як уникнути географічну ізоляцію;
– ⁠⁠Якою має бути нова концепція Великої Одеси;
– Фінансування цього проєкту.

International Transport Corridors Bypass Ukraine: How to Break Out of a Geographical Dead End

Participants:
– Vadym Denysenko, Director of the Business Capital Analytical Center;
– Ihor Tyshkevych, Co-founder of the Research Solutions Network

All in person.

Topics for discussion:
– Nine international transport corridors bypass Ukraine: how to avoid geographic isolation;
– What should the new concept for Greater Odesa look like?
– Funding for this project.

Watch in English:
https://youtube.com/live/RFOmCASDYa0?feature=share

Legitimizing the Occupation: Contacts Between Foreign States and Ukraine’s Temporarily Occupied Territories Have Increas...
30/07/2026

Legitimizing the Occupation: Contacts Between Foreign States and Ukraine’s Temporarily Occupied Territories Have Increased by 400% Since 2022 – Research Findings

Russia has been attempting to legitimize its occupation of Ukrainian territory since 2014 through foreign companies and other countries. This is evidenced by the study “Map of International Support for the Occupiers. How Russia Uses Foreigners to Legitimize Its Presence in the Occupied Territories of Eastern Ukraine,” conducted by researchers from Реальна газета. The findings were presented during a briefing at the Media Center Ukraine.

💬 “Since 2022, political, economic, and cultural interaction between the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and other countries around the world has increased by a factor of 3 to 5. Thirty-three countries have ‘established’ contacts with Ukraine’s occupied territories. The increase in such contacts across these three spheres since 2022 amounts to 400%,” said Olena Fetisova, news editor-in-chief and researcher.

In particular, foreign students are already studying in Luhansk.
The study covered the period from 2014 to July 2026 and focuses on three areas: the economic, political, and cultural spheres.

The previous study is available at the following link: https://realgazeta.com.ua/ietnichna-zamina-iak-instrumient-rosiiskoyi-nieokolonizatsiyi/

30/07/2026

Результати дослідження: "Мапа міжнародної підтримки окупантів. Як Росія використовує іноземців для власної легітимізації на окупованих територіях Сходу України"

Учасники:
– Андрій Діхтяренко, головний редактор і засновник "Реальної газети" (персональна участь);
– Олена Фєтісова, шеф-редакторка новин, дослідниця (персональна участь);
– Софія Діхтяренко, дослідниця (онлайн)

Теми для обговорення:
– Ролі третіх держав у підтримці інфраструктури окупантів в Донецькій і Луганській областях;
– Які міжнародні політичні, культурні і бізнес-структури активно брали участь у легітимізації окупації протягом 2014-2026 років;
– Зусилля, які докладає Кремль, щоб створити ілюзію міжнародного схвалення російської окупації.

Research Findings: “A Map of International Support for the Occupiers: How Russia Uses Foreigners to Legitimize Its Presence in the Occupied Territories of Eastern Ukraine”
Participants:
– Andriy Dikhtyarenko, Editor-in-Chief and Founder of “Realna Gazeta” (in person);
– Olena Fetisova, news editor-in-chief, researcher (in person);
– Sofia Dikhtyarenko, researcher (online)
Topics for discussion:
– The roles of third countries in supporting the occupiers’ infrastructure in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions;
– Which international political, cultural, and business entities actively participated in legitimizing the occupation between 2014 and 2026;
– The Kremlin’s efforts to create the illusion of international approval of the russian occupation.

Watch in English:
https://youtube.com/live/XhQeEPXCTZ0?feature=share

We continue to share interesting facts from Ukrainian history with you. Today we’ll talk about the Sixtiers – a generati...
29/07/2026

We continue to share interesting facts from Ukrainian history with you. Today we’ll talk about the Sixtiers – a generation of Ukrainian intellectuals who broke free from the constraints of Socialist Realism, strengthened national consciousness, and became a moral and cultural opposition to the Soviet system in the 1960s.

The Sixtiers showed the world that Ukraine was not just a province of the USSR, but a European nation with its own culture, language, and freedom-loving intelligentsia.

Read more about the cultural and artistic generation of the Sixtiers in our content project.

The list for the barracks where Russia carried out a terrorist attack in Olenivka was drawn up in advance; it was delive...
28/07/2026

The list for the barracks where Russia carried out a terrorist attack in Olenivka was drawn up in advance; it was delivered to the prison warden by a Ukrainian prisoner of war — according to the families of the prisoners of war

The families of the prisoners of war who survived the terrorist attack in Olenivka have learned that the lists for the so-called “Barrack 200” were compiled in advance and were constantly changing. The families of the prisoners of war recreated this list on their own. Currently, the surnames of 12–13 people remain unknown.

Anna Lobova, the wife of a man who was seriously wounded during the terrorist attack in Olenivka, spoke about this during a briefing at the Media Center Ukraine.

💬 “A former prisoner of war delivered these lists to the prison warden. We knew this information a year ago. We didn’t have a witness who could provide this information to law enforcement. That’s why we remained silent and waited for the investigation to reveal something new. Now this testimony has been documented, but not by the investigators,” she said.

According to her, everyone who survived the terrorist attack in Olenivka is under investigation.

💬 “Everyone will be tried under Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code (terrorist act, punishable by up to 20 years in prison—ed.). Our loved ones have been in a complete information vacuum for five years; we have no right to correspond with them or send them packages. I want to remind you that they were promised captivity for 3–4 months and that their lives would be spared, and today there isn’t a single person in this room who promised them that at Azovstal,” she said.

The families of the captives are demanding answers from law enforcement agencies, particularly the SBU, as to why there have been no changes or updates in the investigation during this time.

As part of the Bring Kids Back UA initiative, 2,044 children have returned to Ukraine Over the four years since the full...
28/07/2026

As part of the Bring Kids Back UA initiative, 2,044 children have returned to Ukraine

Over the four years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 2,044 children have been brought back from the occupied territories or from Russia.

Oleksandra Dvoretska, head of policy development for the President of Ukraine’s Bring Kids Back UA initiative, made this announcement during a briefing at the Media Center Ukraine.

💬 “Every week, 20–30 children move from the occupied territories. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, we have managed to return 2,044 children,” she said.

Oleksandra Dvoretska emphasized that a child’s journey toward reintegration is only just beginning after their return.

Bring Kids Back UA is an initiative that helps bring back abducted Ukrainian children or children who wish to leave the occupied territories.

28/07/2026

Штучний інтелект у школах: чи готовий освітній процес до нової цифрової реальності?

Учасники:
– Данієль Чутурич (Danijel Cuturic), старший координатор та керівник сектору освіти Бюро ЮНЕСКО в Україні;
– Олег Денис, співзасновник SoftServe;
– Тетяна Захарченко, директорка Центру для даних, ШІ та суспільства Українського католицького університету;
– Оксана Матіяш, CEO WINWIN EdTech Center of Excellence;
– Любов Собко, директорка школи “МрійДій” у Львові.

Теми для обговорення:
– Штучний інтелект для навчання;
– Як школи мають реагувати на стрімке поширення ШІ;
– Які правила для навчальних закладів треба вже сьогодні?

Artificial Intelligence in Schools: Is the Educational Process Ready for the New Digital Reality?

Participants:
– Danijel Cuturic, Senior Coordinator and Head of the Education Sector at the UNESCO Office in Ukraine;
– Oleg Denis, co-founder of SoftServe;
– Tetiana Zakharchenko, director of the Center for Data, AI, and Society at the Ukrainian Catholic University;
– Oksana Matiash, CEO of the WINWIN EdTech Center of Excellence;
– Lyubov Sobko, director of the “MriyDiy” school in Lviv.

Topics for discussion:
– Artificial intelligence for education;
– How schools should respond to the rapid spread of AI;
– What guidelines do educational institutions need today?

Watch in English:
https://youtube.com/live/PNCp4EQju68?feature=share

28/07/2026

Вступ, державна підтримка та інтеграція підлітків із тимчасово окупованих територій (ТОТ)

Учасники:
– Олександра Дворецька, керівниця напрямку формування політик ініціативи Президента України Bring Kids Back UA;
– Єлизавета Степанець, директорка департаменту тимчасово окупованих територій та гуманітарних питань Міністерства розвитку громад та територій України
– представник МОН;
– Радміла Сегол, проректорка з наукової роботи та міжнародного співробітництва Державного університету «Київський авіаційний інститут»;
– молода людина, яка виїхала з ТОТ після 2022 та наразі навчається в українському університеті

Всі – персональна участь

Теми для обговорення:
– Безпечний виїзд молоді з ТОТ;
– Державна підтримка та інтеграція після виїзду;
– Вступ до українських закладів вищої освіти: вступна кампанія 2026, «Квота-2», освітні центри та алгоритм дій при вступі;
– Можливості для студентів з ТОТ: пільги, адаптація та реальні історії тих, хто виїхав.

Чому це цікаво?
В Україні триває вступна кампанія, і для молоді з тимчасово окупованих територій вона має окремі механізми та гарантії. Під час брифінгу пояснять, як безпечно виїхати, вступити без НМТ і повного пакета документів, а також яку підтримку отримують студенти після вступу. Окремий акцент — на практичних алгоритмах та реальному досвіді молодої людини, яка вже пройшла цей шлях. Це можливість отримати відповіді на питання, які щороку залишаються найактуальнішими для абітурієнтів з ТОТ та їхніх родин.

Introduction, state support, and integration of adolescents from temporarily occupied territories (TOT)

Participants:
– Oleksandra Dvoretska, Head of Policy Development for the President of Ukraine’s “Bring Kids Back UA” initiative;
– Yelyzaveta Stepanets, Director of the Department for the Temporarily Occupied Territories and Humanitarian Affairs, Ministry for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine;
– a representative from the Ministry of Education and Science;
– Radmila Segol, Vice Rector for Research and International Cooperation at the State University “Kyiv Aviation Institute”;
– a young person who left the TOT after 2022 and is currently studying at a Ukrainian university

All in person.

Topics for discussion:
– Safe departure of young people from the temporarily occupied territories;
– State support and integration after departure;
– Admission to Ukrainian institutions of higher education: the 2026 admissions campaign, “Quota-2,” educational centers, and the step-by-step process for admission;
– Opportunities for students from the TOT: benefits, adaptation, and real-life stories of those who have left.

Why is this interesting?
The admissions campaign is currently underway in Ukraine, and for young people from the temporarily occupied territories, it features specific mechanisms and guarantees. During the briefing, participants will learn how to leave safely, apply without the National Multidisciplinary Test (NMT) or a full set of documents, and what support students receive after admission. Special emphasis will be placed on practical steps and the real-life experience of a young person who has already gone through this process. This is an opportunity to get answers to the questions that remain the most pressing each year for applicants from the temporarily occupied territories and their families.

Watch in English:
https://youtube.com/live/EEHCkOLAdWU?feature=share

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