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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. What can Australia and Australians do?

Presented by H. E. Vasyl Myroshnychenko, the Ambassador of Ukraine to Australia
 

When: Monday, July 11, 2021, 6.30pm until 7.30pm
Where: Holding Redlich, Level 1, 300 Queen Street, Brisbane 

This is event is free for AIIA members from all states. Non-members pay $10 and student non-members $5.

You can attend this event in-person or view it online. If attending in person, please arrive at Holding Redlich at 6pm for registration and drinks. 

Details for viewing online: After registering, on July 11 you will receive a follow-up confirmation email containing further details on how to join the webinar which will commence at 6pm AEST.  If you have not received an email by early afternoon, please check your junk folder. 
 

About the event

Australia has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as being unprovoked and unjustified and a breach of international law. It has joined its western allies in imposing sanctions on Moscow. Australian political leaders have harshly criticised Russia’s actions. Defence Minister Peter Dutton and Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne have called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be investigated for war crimes over civilian killings in Ukraine. To date, Australian assistance to Ukraine has included $A65 million in humanitarian funding and $A165 million in Defensive Military Assistance. In April, the Morrison Government announced it would supply Ukraine with 20 Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles.

With the war in Ukraine becoming a battle of attrition, Ukraine has asked for more Australian assistance. The question is: What more can this country do?

About the speaker

H. E. Vasyl Myroshnychenko resumed the functions of the Ambassador of Ukraine to Australia on April 1, 2022. On March 7, Ukraine’s Minister of Defence of Ukraine appointed Mr Myroshnychenko as his adviser. In May of 2021, he was appointed as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Institute, a cultural diplomacy outfit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he was an active business and civil society leader in Ukraine. From 2006 to 2022, he was a Partner at CFC Big Ideas, a Kyiv-based strategic communications company. Mr Myroshnychenko has 20 years of experience advising clients on corporate communications, public affairs and reputation management. He advised many multinational companies and domestic industry leaders across various sectors. He is a co-founder of Ukraine Crisis Media Centre, a media NGO set up in early March of 2014 aimed at amplifying Ukraine’s voice internationally. Mr Myroshnychenko was in charge of numerous projects and campaigns during 2014-2019. In 2015-2016, he was a Head of the Board of Professional Government Association, an NGO which has united Ukrainian alumni of the Western Universities with a goal of mobilising talent for the economic, legal and judicial reforms in Ukraine. He sat on the board of the Ukrainian-British City Club, a London-based organisation promoting UK-Ukraine trade and investment relations between 2007-2022. In 2018, he was a Marshall Memorial Fellow, a prestigious leadership program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2002-2004, Mr Myroshnychenko was a President of the European Youth Parliament-Ukraine, an international youth NGO. He was a Chevening Scholar and earned MSc in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2006, UK). He also holds MA and BA degrees in international relations from Institute of International Relations, Kyiv National Shevchenko University (2002, 2003). He is a graduate of the Global Village for Future Leaders of Business and Industry program at Iacocca Institute, Lehigh University (2002, USA) and Swedish Institute Management Program (Sweden, 2009) and a two-week intensive course on public affairs and advocacy from the Centre of Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University in Washington, DC (USA, 2014). He has two children and is married to Liana Myroshnychenko.

Main picture: Protesters rally in support of Ukraine in New York. Katie Godowki, Pexels.

David Costello

Secretary

AIIA QLD

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