Kherson State University

The conference was attended by scientists from various cities of Ukraine, as well as Poland, Great Britain, Germany, and Bulgaria. The key topic is the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, in particular the resistance of Kherson, the occupation and, in general, the experience of the south of Ukraine during the war, etc. The language of the conference is English, which indicates another step towards integration into the international scientific space.

Main reports:

• Natalia Kuzovova (Kherson). Civil resistance in Kherson during the occupation in March 2022.

• Roman Drozd (Slupsk). Polish-Ukrainian relations during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

• Serhiy Vodotyka (Kherson). Testimony of the military as a source for the study of the defense of Kherson 02.24-03.01.2022.

• Stefan Goebel (Kent), Soviet War Memorials in Germany: The Impact of the War in Ukraine.

• Oleksandr Cheremisin (Kherson). Reconstruction of the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine through the prism of oral history using the example of the city of Kherson.

• Laura Tradius (Kent). Conflict afterlife: Management of Wehrmacht burials in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR.
• Tatiana Vodotika (Durham). Cities at war.

• Emma Hannah (Kent). British War Memorial.

• Halyna Mykhaylenko (Kherson). The experience of leaving occupied Kherson through the prism of oral history.

• Victoria Dobrovolska (Kherson). The occupation of Kherson in 2022 through the eyes of a witness.
• Denis Shatalov (Sofia). The modern Russian-Ukrainian war and the Second World War: the image of the enemy and the interaction of ideas (based on the materials of the city of Kryvyi Rih).

• Yuriy Mitrofanenko (Kropyvnytskyi). The volunteer movement in the South of Ukraine during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
• Oksana Zorych (Kyiv). Mental occupation of the inhabitants of Southern Ukraine by means of mass information.
• Nadia Ryzheva (Mykolaiv). Mykolaiv - the city of the unconquered: the chronology of the first events of the war, 2022.