The State Emergency Service of Ukraine

In cooperation with the territorial bodies of the National Police and health care institutions, employees of the Main Departments of the SES of Ukraine in the oblasts and in the city of Kiev have temporary reception points and sorting of patients with coronavirus disease in the territories of first-wave health care facilities.

In the Ternopil region the health of rescuers working in the area of the greatest spread of coronavirus infection was checked. On March 27, the COVID-19 detection tests in the Monastyrysky district were conducted by employees of the 19th State Fire and Rescue Unit and the district control department of the SES in Ternopil region.

On March 17, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine aimed at Preventing the Occurrence and Spread of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)”.

The delegation consisting of the OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine, the representatives of embassies, international organizations and the SES of Ukraine visited the unit of the pyrotechnic works and humanitarian demining of the Emergency Rescue Unit of special assignment of the Main Department of the SES of Ukraine in Donetsk oblast.

Last week, a Japanese delegation of graduate students from Osaka and Kyoto Universities, who also represent the non-governmental organization Japanese Educational League for Renaissance, concluded its visit to Zhytomyr region.

On March 10, a meeting of rescuers, representatives of the Chernivtsi regional organization of the Red Cross Society and a delegation from Austria took place at the Department of the SES of Ukraine in Chernivtsi Oblast. In particular, project manager of the Red Cross Society in Ukraine Roland Mayer and representative of the Red Cross of Lower Austria Eduard Wok visited Bukovina.

The delegation of the Zhidachiv District Council, which also included local rescuers, recently visited the twin town of Sanok in the Republic of Poland.

On March 5, the Deputy Head of the SESU Ruslan Biloshytskyi has held a working meeting with the delegation of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, headed by DTRA Office’s Chief in the US Embassy to Ukraine Joanna Wintrol and new CP-2 Project Coordinator Frederick Williams.

On March 5, a delegation of Polish firefighters, namely Director of the Human Resources Department, Tomasz Siaenz, and Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Department, Krzysztof Petrusik, of the State Fire Service of the Republic of Poland, visited the Directorate of the SES.

A delegation of Lviv State University of Life Safety headed by Rector Professor Miroslav Koval participates in the International Command and Staff Exercises (ICSE) held in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.

Recently, the US-Defense Threat Reduction Agency arrived at the Interregional Emergency Response Center. The Agency's close cooperation with rescuers has been ongoing for 6 years.

On February 26-29, a delegation of the Training, Research and Manufacturing Center, National University of Civil Protection of Ukraine, visited the Higher School of International Relations and Social Communication in Chelm, Poland.

On February 28, professor at the Department of Social Work at Monmouth University, an international instructor for psychological care in emergencies at the American Red Cross (New York, USA), Fulbright Fellow, Michael Cronin paid a working visit to the National University of Civil Defense of Ukraine.

The meeting with Dr. Sem Potolikko, President of the Preparing of Global Leaders Foundation, Director of the Global and Specialized Education course at the McCourt School of Public Policy of the Georgetown University, New York University lecturer, and with Dr. Dan E. Davison, Senior Academic Advisor, Director of the American Councils Research Center, Honorary President of the American Councils on International Education was held on February 27.

Doctoral student at Lviv State University of Life Safety, Captain of the Civil Protection Service Dmitro KOBILKIN is at Kingston University, London, United Kingdom as part of the "ERASMUS +" program. During the visit, lectures and seminars were held for students in the following disciplines: “Project development and management”, “Geomorphology and geophysical emergencies”, “Emergency risk reduction” and a scientific seminar on the topic: “Chernobyl tragedy: history, emergency response and the consequences. "

The delegation of the State of Israel, headed by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel to Ukraine, Joel Lyon, during a working visit, visited the Fire and Rescue Unit of the Department of SES in Cherkasy Oblast.

Delegations of German Society for International Cooperation arrive at Lviv State University of Life Safety today Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, headed by Project Director Christian Poshman.

The proffesional staff of Lysychansk City Department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Luhansk oblast took part in a basic two-day training on project management in accordance with the United Nations Recovery and Peacebuilding Programme. The event took place on February 22-23 at Lysychansk City Palace of Culture.

Marek Kowalski, coordinator of the project "Improvement of the civil protection system in the united communities of Ukraine - Phase 2" visited Ternopil region. He is also a representative of the Association of Volunteer Fire Teams of the Republic of Poland, a retired General of the State Fire Service of Poland.

On February 19, Volovets rescuers were pleased to meet colleagues from the brother German city of the Bad Endorf. Such meetings are not the first time, but they are always held in high spirits. Rescuers from both countries share experiences, tell about various interesting moments that happened to them during the elimination of different fires and emergencies.

Within five days, February 17–21, in Sievierodonetsk City, the International Committee of the Red Cross will conduct a training course on the identification of explosive objects for the professional staff of the Main Department of the SES of Ukraine in Luhansk oblast, whose duties include the identification of explosive objects.

February 11, on the basis of the Pyrotechnic Works and humanitarian demining unit of the Special Purpose Emergency Rescue Squad, within the framework of the project agreement between the SES of Ukraine and the “The HALO Trust” in Ukraine, completed the training with the personnel of the Main Department of Training on the features of conducting non-technical survey of the territory as one of the components of the humanitarian demining system.

Zakarpattya mountain rescuers will continue to set up information guides on hiking trails in the Carpathians. This was discussed during a working meeting between the experts of the mountain search and rescue unit and a representative of the crisis management office of the Hetman of the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic Mr. Aldrich Masin who recently visited Zakarpattya region.

According to the results of the International competitions on fire-applied sport “New Names, that took place on February 5-6 at the sports base of the University of Civil Protection of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus (Minsk), the team of Cherkasy Institute of Fire Safety named after Chornobyl Heroes of the National University of Civil Protection of Ukraine has won the first place.

On February 3, at the 8th meeting of the High Level Strategic Council under the auspices of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a solemn ceremony of signing the Memorandum of Understanding between Ukraine on mutual understanding took place of the Emergency Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Turkey (AFAD) on cooperation in the field of disasters, emergency response and elimination of their consequences.