The State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Practical measures to survey sites of the terrain and to free the territory from explosive objects continue in Severodonetsk district. The first phase of this work, supported by the Danish Refugee Council/Danish Demining Group, has now been completed. Since the beginning of the implementation of this year's program, more than 1.64 hectares of territory have been surveyed (demined).

Today, Nadvirna district is getting reinforced by a fire and rescue vehicle for fire-fighting and rescue operations - the special vehicle AC-850 on MAN chassis that was purchased under the “Joint protection of people and environment through the creation of Ukrainian-Polish system of disasters prevention and response in the Carpathian Euroregion” Project of the European Neighbourhood Instrument Cross-Border Cooperation "Poland-Belarus-Ukraine 2014-2020".

On June 9, 2021, the Panel Discussion “Implementation of the Roadmap for Medical and Psychological Rehabilitation for Ex-combatants / ATO / JFO” took place with the participation of MPs of Ukraine, representatives of the Security and Defense Sector of Ukraine, central executive bodies, professional communities and civil society.

On June 9 in the territory of TC Bukovel, Polyanytsya village of Ivano-Frankivsk region there was held a final field conference with training in the project "Joint protection of people and the environment by creating a Ukrainian-Polish system of disaster prevention and response in the Carpathian Euroregion" of the Cross-border Cooperation Program Poland-Belarus-Ukraine 2014-2020.

A practical part of the training on non-technical area survey allegedly contaminated with explosives took place at the Interregional Center for Humanitarian Demining and Rapid Response of the SES of Ukraine in the framework of the OSCE International Technical Assistance Project “Development of Ukraine's Mine Action Capabilities”.

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine received a letter of gratitude from the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic for the support and assistance to Czech firefighters during the delivery of property humanitarian aid from the Czech Republic to Ukraine.

Special emergency response exercises with the involvement of fire, rescue, as well as other special equipment and aircraft were held on June 4 on the territory of the tactical training ground of the Interregional Emergency Response Center of the SES in Sumy oblast.

After that, the State Secretary, Director of the Emergency Situations Department of the Romanian Ministry of Interior Raida Arafata, representatives of the Romanian Consulate General in Chernivtsi met with the leadership of the Head Department of the SES of Ukraine in Chernivtsi Oblast.

On May 27, the two-day command and staff exercises, which took place within the framework of the PPRD East III program, ended in the SES of Ukraine. The purpose of the exercises is to strengthen the response to emergencies and deepen cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union in this area.

The working meetings took place in Donetsk oblast under the project “Support to state and municipal emergency management in Eastern Ukraine” with the participation of representatives of the German Society for International Cooperation Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Deputy Director of the Department - Head of the division of special equipment and special vehicles of the Department of resource support of the SES of Ukraine Oleksandr Vaskovskyi.

On May 26, the SES of Ukraine began a two-day table top exercise under the PPRD East III program. The purpose of the exercises is to strengthen the response to emergencies and to deepen the cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union in this area.

On May 20-21, representatives of the project team of the Main Department of the SES of Ukraine in Chernivtsi oblast took part in an online meeting of the Steering Committee for the implementation of the infrastructure project “Improving security level and safety of the population in the cross-border region by strengthening joint training and cooperation in emergency management – BRIDGE”.

Recently, the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Problems of Emergency Situations” took place in online mode at the National University of Civil Protection of Ukraine. For the first time in the history of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine since 2020, the National University of Civil Protection of Ukraine has launched a conference with the possibility of publishing articles in the scientific journal “Materials Science Forum”, indexed by the scientometric database Scopus.

On May 19 an official working visit of the Ukrainian delegation, which included rescuers from Kyiv, Odesa, Kherson and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, to the Republic of Poland took place. The purpose of the trip is to discuss future cooperation, as well as exchange experience with Polish colleagues.

On May 18, employees of the State Emergency Service in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast took part in the third information day of the project "Adaptation of the former observatory on Mount Pip Ivan to the needs of the Alpine Rescue Training Center (PIMReC)", implemented under the Cross-Border Cooperation Program neighborhood "Poland-Belarus-Ukraine 2014-2020".

On May 19 a planning meeting on the conduct of command-staff exercises, which will be held in Kyiv on May 26-27 2021 in the framework of the third phase of the EU project "PPRD East II and Program", took place in the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, chaired by Deputy Head of the SES Ruslan Biloshitsky.

A seminar-meeting on the use of the application to determine the applicant's location was held today via video conference with the developers of the what3words mobile application. According to the developer, the application "what3words" uses a world map consisting of small squares measuring 3 * 3 meters.

Thanks to the assistance of the organization « Friends of Ukraine Erzgebirge » and the active cooperation of rescuers of Cherkasy oblast with colleagues from the service of emergency situationa of the Vogtland district (Germany), firefighters of Zolotonosha received humanitarian aid.

On May 13, the intergovernmental agreements as part of the implementation of the agreements of the meeting of the Ukrainian-French group on economic cooperation have been signed in Kyiv. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmygal, the Minister of Economy and Finance of France Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov and the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov took part in the event.

On May 13, a protocol meeting of the leadership of the SESU and a delegation of the company-manufacturer of fire equipment DESAUTEL/Echelles Riffaud took place in the framework of the next stage of the implementation of Ukrainian-French Project on supplying of fire motor ladders from the French side for the needs of the SESU.

On May 6, the final training session for the third group of SES specialists on working with social networks during firefighting and emergencies took place. The online seminar was attended by heads of departments responsible for working with the media and public relations, as well as deputy heads of the Main Departments of the SES for emergency response. The event was called "Social Networks ... Think Before You Write" and was conducted by experts from the US Forest Service. For convenience and better perception of information, the participants of the online seminar were divided into 3 groups.

The European Methane Cup will be held on May 7-8 in Split (Croatia).

The other day, the III Ukrainian Forum of International Education took place online. The event was attended by the Assistant Director for International Cooperation of the National University of Civil Protection of Ukraine Denis Lebedev. The forum was held in accordance with the Decree of the President of Ukraine № 210/2020 “On the improvement of higher education in Ukraine”. The event is included in the Plan to promote opportunities for higher education in Ukraine for foreign students.

As part of the international technical assistance project between the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and the UN Development Program in Ukraine, a working meeting of the delegation of the International organization with representatives of the Main Department of the SES of Ukraine in Donetsk oblast headed by Deputy Head of the Main Department Volodymyr Zakharchuk took place in Donetsk oblast.

During video conference the initiatives of the project “iNSItu: natural solutions to flood-affected communities” have been discussed. The project is being implemented with the financial support of Switzerland.