On Wednesday, November 2, 2022, at 10:00 a.m., the Ukrainian Agri Council, under the support of the USAID Program for Agrarian and Rural Development (AGRO), will present an Interactive Map of the Damages to the Ukrainian Agricultural Sector.

The portal was created to show the real damage of the Ukrainian agricultural sector caused by Russian aggression, and to help agricultural producers record war crimes committed against their enterprises.

Participants of the event: representatives of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Kherson Regional Military Administration and public associations are involved in the event.

Moreover a discussion on issues of documentation and compensation for the damages caused to enterprises that suffered as a result of Russian aggression against Ukraine will be considered.

The moderator of the event is Serhii Kubakh, head of the land reform direction of the USAID Program for Agrarian and Rural Development (AGRO).

The broadcast is in two languages: 

In Ukrainian -  https://cutt.ly/HNEerI5
In English -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_tNuSukuNc

Speakers:

• Mykola Solsky, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
• Danylo Hetmantsev, Chair of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy.
• Yaroslav Yanushevich, Head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration.
• Dmytro Kokhan, Adviser to the Chair of the Ukrainian Agri Council.
• Roman Hrab, Chair of the VkursiAgro project.
• Ivan Slobodianyk, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Community Association, Chair of the Ukrainian Congress of Farmers. 
• Cynthia Tai, the Executive Director and Founder of Project Expedite Justice.
• Alisa Holoshchapova, the Coordinator of Project Expedite Justice in Ukraine. 
• Serhiy Rybalko, the Public Union Agro-Producers of the Occupied Territories Member

We will remind you that the Ukrainian Agri Council and the USAID’s Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities Activity (AGRO) have launched a project to support the economic recovery of the agricultural sector of Ukraine, which suffered as a result of Russia's military aggression against Ukraine.

As part of the project, we implement the best international practices of recording war crimes and the caused losses. Based on the received information, an evidence database will be compiled and a portal will be created. It will reflect the crimes committed by the Russian Federation against the agricultural sector of Ukraine.

In the future, the collected evidence base will be used to submit individual applications or to join already existing collective lawsuits in international courts with the purpose of compensation for the damage caused.

____________________________________

The event was possible thanks to the generous support of the American people provided through the USAID’s Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities Activity (AGRO) implemented by Chemonics International. The authors views do not necessarily reflect the view of USAID or the United States Government.