The State Emergency Service of Ukraine

On October 17, an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland Bartosz Cichocki took part in summarizing of the Local Development Initiative “Improving Civil Protection in United Communities” in Dnipropetrovsk oblast, as well as provided additional rewards for those united territorial communities, which have successfully implemented it and created acting volunteer fire teams.

Since 11 to 14 October, the Youth World Sambo and Sports Championships took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. About 300 athletes from 44 countries took part in the competitions, which fight for the title of champions in 40 weight categories.

On October 16, a solemn summing-up of the Initiative "Improving the Civil Protection System in the United Territorial Communities of Ukraine", implemented by the Association of Volunteer Fire Teams of the Republic of Poland with the support of the U-LEAD Program in Europe, was held at the Office of the SES of Ukraine in Chernihiv Oblast.

During the last week, at the invitation of Hetman of Pardubice Region Martin Netolitsky, 11 rescuers from Zakarpattia firefighters from Khust, Tyachiv and Mizhhirya districts of Zakarpattia were on a working trip to the Pardubice region of the Czech Republic.

On October 10, the Forum “Feat does not know gender” started in Kyiv, with the initiative of the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine and with the support of UN Women in Ukraine. In the first panel of the event, the speakers welcomed the participants, and Deputy Minister Tatiana Kovalchuk said, “Gender equality is not about women's rights, it is about equal opportunities for everyone.

On October 8, the 18th International Specialized Exhibition “Protection Technologies / FireTech - 2019” - the main sectoral exhibition project in the field of fire safety, industrial safety and labor protection, safety and rescue, began its work on the territory of the International Exhibition Center in Kyiv.

On September 30, in Kyiv Oblast, on the base of the International Interagency Multidisciplinary Training Center for National Guard Units, with the participation of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi and Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov in the framework of special trainings of the Ministry of Internal Affairs units, rescuers worked out skills of responding to the most typical and resonant emergencies.

On September 30, within the part of a working visit to Donetsk, the the 3rd State Fire and Rescue unit was visited by the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ukraine, Ms. Anka Feldhuzen, Consul General of Germany in Donetsk, Mr. Stefan Kyle and the Project Manager of the German Society for International Cooperation GIZ Christian Poshmann.

From September 23, Uman City meets Hasidic pilgrims from all over the world, who are arriving to the city in order to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the 5780th New Year according to the Jewish calendar.

Among the religious services, held by the Hasids on the New Year Eve, a special place is occupied by ritual ablution in Mokva and in open water sources. The most popular place for this among the pilgrims, who have arrived in Uman, is a flooded quarry, the depth of which in some places is more than 14 meters.

Within the framework of implementation of the joint project of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and the Danish Refugee Council / Danish Demining Group, the works on the cleaning (demining) of contaminated sites have begun in accordance with the requirements of the governing documents and taking into account the operational situation in the areas of execution.

During September 21–22, the residents of Kyiv and guests of the city looked on challenging fight between the rescue teams from all over Ukraine and teams from Belarus, Poland and Lithuania at Khreshchatyk Street.

On September 17, the 25th World Championship for Rescue Dogs in the city of Villeur (France) is held by the International Rescue Dog Training Organization (IRO). From Ukraine participate in international competitions take 4 dog calculations: Kunichik Anna with Asya malinois, Davydenko Irina with Appa malinois, Nemchenko Marina - with boarder-collie DJ and Radchenko Valeriy with Saty's malinois.

Representatives of the Voivodship Commandant of the State Fire Protection in Krakow continue their working visit to Odesa. Such a meeting was held once again within the framework of the project "Increasing the Effectiveness of Ukrainian Emergency Response Services - Phase II" under the Polish Development Assistance Program. The delegation of firefighters was headed by the city commandant of the State Fire Department of Krakow, Senior Brigadier Pavel Knapik.

On September 9, the IMRB 2019 World Mining Rescue Conference started in Colombia, which is attended by representatives of the State Paramilitary Mining Squad of the SES of Ukraine, whose governing body is located in Kryvyi Rih.

“Prevention of the Proliferation of Radioactive and Hazardous Chemicals” - this is the name of five-day training course of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency that begun on September, 9 at the Interregional Emergency Response Center of the SESU for the specialists, who can be engaged to emergencies related to radiation and hazardous chemicals.

On September 7, the result of the 36-hour training of Ukrainian rescuers within the framework of re-certification of the Search and Rescue Team of the heavy class of the Mobile Rescue Center for Rapid Response of the SES of Ukraine in the UN International Advisory Group - INSARAG, was announced.

On September 5, Deputy Head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Ruslan Biloshitsky, met with a delegation of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the People's Republic of China headed by Mr. Juan Yuzhi, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Emergencies of the People's Republic of China.

On September 4, Deputy Head of the SES of Ukraine Ruslan Biloshitsky met with members of the Certification Commission for recertification of the Search and Rescue Team of heavy class of the Mobile Rescue Center of the SES of Ukraine in the system of UN International Search and Rescue Advisory Group - INSARAG.

From the 2 to 7 of September a delegation of Polish rescuers is staing in Oblast within the framework of the third stage of the Ukrainian-Polish project "Increasing the Efficiency of Ukrainian Emergency Services Response to Crises Situations". Partnerships between firefighters-rescuers of Kherson oblast and Malopolsk Voivodeship have been maintained since 2010, when the first joint project took place and the first batch of humanitarian aid within the framework of the "Polish Aid for Development " programme was transfer to the Kherson Rescuers.

On September 2, the Head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraqine met with the delegation of the State of Israel, headed by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel to Ukraine, Joel Lyon, on security issues during the Rosh Hashana Jewish New Year celebration.

On 29-30 August, the NSPA delegation visited the Training Center within the framework of the NATO Trust Fund EOD project. The purpose of the NATO experts visit was to get acquainted with the Training Center and to identify possible NATO assistance to the Center.

On August 29, Deputy Head of the Service Ruslan Biloshytsky met with representatives of the China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchange (CICETE) and China MEHECO company to discuss the use of special rescue equipment and equipment received by the SES during 2016- 2017 as part of a project of free assistance from the Government of the People's Republic of China.

For the past year, the children of rescuers from the Donetsk Oblast receive a huge dose of positive emotions, resting at the International Young Firefighters Children's Camp in the picturesque city of Janske Kupela (Czech Republic). Children from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine live side by side for two weeks, competing with each other, speaking different languages!

According to the Partnership Agreement on the implementation of the project "Increasing the effectiveness of the response of Ukrainian rescue services to crisis situations - Phase II", the Main Department of the SES of Ukraine in Odessa oblast received humanitarian aid from the Voivodship Commandant of the State Fire Protection Service in Krakow, Republic of Poland.