16 May, 2025
As part of the signing of the partnership between Kherson, Saint-Nazaire, and Nantes, Vitalii Bielobrov, Deputy Mayor of Kherson, visited the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyards in Saint-Nazaire. He was accompanied by Vadym Omelchenko, Ambassador of Ukraine to France, representatives of the cities and the region—including Frédéric Vasse, Director General of the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Metropolitan Hub, and Aziliz Gouez, Vice President of Nantes Métropole—as well as the Stand With Ukraine team.
The visit, led by Laurent Castaing, CEO of Chantiers de l’Atlantique, offered an in-depth look at the shipyard’s infrastructure, construction workshops, and vessels currently under development. This moment, both symbolic and tangible, highlighted the relevance of the new partnership signed between the ...
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16 May, 2025
Ukraine is not alone—French cities continue to mobilize. At Saint-Nazaire City Hall, the cities of Kherson, Nantes, and Saint-Nazaire came together to officially launch a partnership between the three estuary cities: the Loire for Nantes and Saint-Nazaire, and the Dnipro for Kherson.
Vitalii Bielobrov, Deputy Mayor of Kherson, traveled to France for this symbolic event. The official signing took place in Saint-Nazaire, in the presence of Mayor David Samzun, Johanna Rolland, Mayor of Nantes and President of Nantes Métropole, Ukrainian Ambassador to France Vadym Omelchenko, and the Stand With Ukraine team.Kherson, a strategic city in southern Ukraine located on the banks of the Dnipro River, was occupied by Russian forces at the very beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022. After m...
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9 May, 2025
On Europe Day, 50 high school students from schools in the European Parliament Ambassador School Programme gathered in Paris to celebrate the founding values of the European Union: peace, solidarity, and democracy.
The day began at Europa Experience with a presentation by Stand With Ukraine on European citizenship, the stakes of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, and Ukraine’s central role within the European project. The discussion also addressed the dangers of disinformation in the context of hybrid warfare—fought both on the battlefield and online—where information itself becomes a strategic weapon.
Stand With Ukraine guided students through the key events of the Maidan uprising, emphasizing that it was a youth-led movement which, as early as 2013, powerfully expressed a desi...
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