Expert meeting with journalists 'Island of Crimea': what is happening and is it possible to unblock Crimea, the Black and Black Sea-Azov region'

Participants: Tamila Tasheva - Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; Alina Frolova - expert of the Center for Defense Strategies, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine 2019-2020; Maria Tomak - Head of the Crimean Platform Support Service in the structure of the Representation of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; Olga Skrypnyk - head of the Crimean Human Rights Group; Mykhailo Honchar - Expert on International Energy and Security Relations, President of the Center for Global Studies "Strategy XXI"; Andriy Klymenko - Head of the Institute of Strategic Black Sea Studies, Editor-in-Chief of BlackSeaNews; Eugene Khlobystov - Professor of Ecology, National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"; Andriy Ryzhenko - Captain of the 1st rank, expert of the Center for Defense Strategies. 

Ukraine's leading political and military experts will hold an off-record meeting with journalists on the security situation in Crimea, the Black and Azov Seas. 

Topics for discussion: 

- Preconditions for the occupation of Crimea and the CAR. 

- What is happening now in the Crimea and Kherson region. News from the peninsula, humanitarian aspect. Expectation of a "great" war. 

- Economic consequences of the blockade of the CAR. 

- Military context: what Russia and Ukraine are capable of. 

- Geopolitical context: possible ways to unblock. 

The format of the event is offline (Hall 1). 

Registration: https://forms.gle/psGNT6WJJjwjiAV46 

Journalists will be able to ask questions offline (Hall 1). 

Journalists are asked to arrive half an hour before the event. 

Ukrinform address: Kyiv, street Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 8/16