Cross Party Group on Ukraine Tuesday 16th April 2024 18:00 – 20:00 (hybrid) Minutes Present MSPs Colin Beattie MSP Paul O’Kane MSP Miles Briggs MSP Ben Macpherson MSP Clare Adamson MSP Invited Guests Bohdan Yaremenko, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament [Could not access the meeting remotely due to technical difficulties] Oleksandra Sologub, Chief Executive Officer, Nazovni Magda Czarnecka, Feniks David Pratt, The Herald on Sunday, The National, Sunday National Robbie Fraser, Dulcimer Films One Non-MSP Group Members Hannah Beaton-Hawryluk Steven Carr Yevgen Gorash Anna Kulish Hanna Tekliuk Olha Maksymiak Kseniia Smyrnova Bohdan Kruk Tanya Balanova Kateryna Campbell Maryan Pokhylyy Oleksandra Novatska Doug Allan Anne Yarney Oleksandra Wierzbicka Consulate of Ukraine in Edinburgh represented by Andrii Kuslii AUGB Edinburgh represented by Larysa Leshkoshvili AUGB Dundee represented by Mykhailo Pavlov and Valentyna Mykhailenko AUGB Glasgow represented by Olga Lutsyshyn Center for Civil Liberties represented by Anna Nazaruk Nadiya represented by Derek Edwards and Anna Merchuk Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations’ Council represented by John Hawryluk Ukrainian Collective The Scottish Council on Global Affairs represented by John Edward Apologies Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP Katy Clark MSP Russell Findlay MSP Christine Grahame MSP Liam McArthur MSP Scottish Refugee Council Anastasia Klimash Zhenya Dove Viktor Radchenko Illia Malanchuk Olena Litvinova-Kutsai Yulianna Shalenyk Oleksandr Chernykh Dmytro Syrota Michael Ostapko Olena Yuzkova Olga Biryuk Kvitka Perehinets Vasyl Kren Peter David Kormylo Juliette Lichman Agenda item 1 Convenor • Welcome and Apologies Colin Beattie MSP (CB MSP) welcomes attendees (both in the Committee Room and online...