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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЧЕРВЕНЬ 2015 WWW.UNWLA.ORG 15 On Sunday, April 26th, I had the oppor- tunity of attending a working lunch meeting be- tween Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko and leaders of the Ukrainian-American community from the New York City area. The luncheon was hosted by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. The mayor made very clear that his ad- ministration was doing its utmost to tackle the enormous issue of both inherited and continuing corruption. Mr. Klitschko stressed that he was placing his very reputation on the line in the bat- tle against corruption and that he and his admin- istration were pledging to ensure the transparen- cy of investment in Kyiv. Attending community leaders recognized the importance of such re- forms, but also acknowledged that they under- stood how difficult such an assignment was. Mayor Klitschko recognized that the investment climate in Ukraine is far from attractive because of ongoing corruption and Russia's contin- ued aggression against Ukraine. His goal was to make Kyiv a “model” city in the current environ- ment of Ukraine. Ukraine's growing IDP (internally dis- placed persons) crisis was also discussed. It has been documented that approximately 2 million citizens are now displaced within Ukraine due to Russia's illegal annexation and occupation of Crimea and Russia's ongoing invasion of the Donbas region. Mayor Klitschko stated that the city of Kyiv has 20,000 internally displaced per- sons on its territory. The city is providing many Meeting with Mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko. social services to alleviate these families’ hard- ships—some 600 children have been placed in the city schools, employment assistance is offered, medical services are available, etc. The fight against Russia's well-funded propaganda machine was also a topic of discus- sion. The determined, committed, and almost en- tirely volunteer community efforts in this propa- ganda war were acknowledged. We promised to continue our volunteer efforts in this propaganda war. As a side note, many participants of the meeting mentioned that the mayor’s brother’s fight on Friday, April 24th, at Madison Square Garden in New York City was one small way of providing positive PR about Ukraine. Mayor Klitschko was in New York City for his brother Volodymyr’s boxing match against Brian Jennings. Vlad Klitschko successfully de- fended his world heavyweight championship title for the 18th time. The mayor shared that he had several high-level meetings scheduled in Wash- ington, D.C., in the days following our meeting. We thank Mayor Klitschko for making the time in his extremely busy schedule to meet with us. While Ukrainian politicians and govern- ment officials continue to travel throughout Eu- rope, Canada, and the United States to lobby for aid to Ukraine and to meet with diaspora sup- porters, President Putin and his administration continue to deny Russia’s involvement in the war in eastern Ukraine. Russian opposition activists released on May 12th a 65-page report, started by the late Boris Nemtsov, the slain Russian opposi- tion leader and former Deputy Prime Minister. Before his murder near the Kremlin on February 27th, Nemtsov was investigating Russia's war against Ukraine. The report describes Putin's ac- tions not as damage control to retain influence in Ukraine after Yanukovych’s flight from power, but rather as part of a premeditated plot to keep a sol- id grip on Ukraine that began as early as 2012. Whatever the case, the misery and deaths are still a reality in Ukraine. The UNWLA continues to give aid to the wounded. Most recently, on May 12th, Dr. Maria Furtak visited the Rehabilitation Center in the Military Hospital in L’viv and, on the advice of its Director, Dr. Rostislav Danylov, gave UNWLA financial aid to young men who had suffered spi- nal injuries in Debaltseve. These young men had received initial emergency care and surgery in Dnipropetrovsk and were now transferred to the Rehab Center for physical therapy. As we have all been reading in the press, another group which is gravely suffering due to
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