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The Third International conference "Crimea Global. Understanding Ukraine through the South" is taking place in Kyiv.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

17 November 2025 17:29

On 17-18 November, Kyiv is hosting the Third Crimea Global. Understanding Ukraine through the South conference. This annual event has become a unique platform for experts from different regions of the world to discuss the situation in the temporarily occupied Crimea.

Olha Kuryshko, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Iryna Mudra, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Sergiy Kyslytsya, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Refat Chubarov, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, delivered welcoming remarks to participants of the conference.

In his speech, Sergiy Kyslytsya emphasized the importance of maintaining the interest of the public in Africa, Asia and Latin America in covering the situation in Ukraine.

The First Deputy Minister drew the attention of participants to the need for the international community to respond to Russia's violations of international humanitarian law in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, in particular the closure of Ukrainian schools, the removal of cultural property, environmental problems, systematic human rights violations, namely against representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people, and the indoctrination of Ukrainian children.

According to the Ukrainian diplomat, for Russia, Crimea is primarily a resource in the pursuit of its imperial ambitions, for attempting to return to a world of the past, defined solely by military force and the ability to enslave other nations. In this context, he condemned the use of foreign citizens as expendable material in Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, noting that Russian aggression against Ukraine is nothing more than a classic neocolonial war to enslave the people of an independent country.

As Sergiy Kyslytsya recalled, it was the leadership of the USSR that insisted on the priority of including the principle of territorial integrity and inviolability of borders in the 1975 Helsinki Final Act. Therefore, by destroying the architecture of post-war global security with its armed aggression against Ukraine, the Kremlin has finally lost in the eyes of the international community the last remnants of trust in its treaty-making capacity and the documents it has signed.

This year's Crimea Global conference is attended by officials, representatives of the diplomatic corps, experts, political scientists and journalists from a number of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.