De-mining Ukraine
Date and time:
Wednesday 27 July, 2022
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Crowndale Centre
Eversholt Street
London
NW1 1BD
Join us to hear from de-mining expert Yulia Chykolba who will discuss the explosive hazards that Ukrainian civilians are facing daily, and what the humanitarian community is doing to help.
Since 2014, the HALO trust has recorded nearly 2,000 casualties due to land mines and explosives. Following Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, the number of mines and explosives across Ukraine is increasing every day.
Yulia Chykolba will outline the biggest challenges faced by the humanitarian mine action programme in Ukraine and how long it could take to demine Ukraine.
Speaker
Yuliia Chykolba
Yuliia Chykolba is a humanitarian mine action expert. She has developed safety awareness programmes on explosive hazards in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine. Since 2016 she has held various roles with the UN, ICRC and international NGOs working in countries with the highest levels of mines and explosives in the world. She is an alumna of the War Studies Department, King’s College London and Chevening. Currently, she is based in Ukraine working with the British demining charity The HALO trust.
Moderator
Emily Tripp
Emily Tripp is the Director of Airwars, a UK-based non-profit organisation that focuses on civilian casualty recording primarily in conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. Since 2021 she managed Airwars' Research department, and took up the leadership of the organisation in June 2022. Prior to working for Airwars, she spent five years in the humanitarian sector, initially within monitoring and evaluation and later in needs assessments and research. She has worked in Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Tunisia, and managed assessment teams in Libya.
