On February 26, 2025, an International Scientific and Practical Conference was held dedicated to the anniversary of the full-scale invasion
On February 26, the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Southern Ukraine and the Full-Scale Military Invasion of Russia on February 24, 2022: Source Aspect, Directions of Historical Research, Memorialization” was held at Kherson State University.
The event was organized by the Faculty of Psychology, History and Sociology of Kherson State University together with the Pomeranian University (Poland) and the University of Kent (Great Britain), as well as the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund. Representatives of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University joined the event.

The meeting was moderated by the head of the Department of History, Archaeology and Teaching Methods of KhSU, Natalia Kuzovova.
The first vice-rector of KhSU, Serhiy Omelchuk, thanked the Polish partners for their support in the fight against the Russian invasion and cooperation with our university.
He also noted that the department’s staff is conducting powerful scientific work on documenting war crimes and testimonies about the occupation of Kherson. This work is headed by Professor Oleksandr Cheremisin.
“The preservation of historical memory for Kherson State University is an institutional topic: the multi-vector and multifaceted views on the modern history of the Russian-Ukrainian war are recorded in our chronicles. Many of our colleagues joined in writing personal essays. We remember how difficult this project was, because it is difficult to intellectually experience those emotions and then express them in the public space. But we understand how valuable it is for both research and memory,” Serhiy Omelchuk noted.
The representative of the Pomeranian University in Slupsk, Director of the Institute of History, Robert Kuśneż, welcomed the conference participants. He expressed his support for the Ukrainian people and the KhSU community, and also noted the long-term cooperation between our two universities.
We would like to remind you that the “Double Diplomas” program has been implemented between our universities for many years in a row.
The Director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies of the University of Kent, Susanna Ivanych, also joined the congratulations of our Ukrainian colleagues. KhSU established contacts with this university in 2022, and since then the institutions have been cooperating in various areas of work, in particular, British colleagues actively involve KhSU in English conversation clubs.
Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, History and Sociology of KhSU, Iryna Shaposhnykova, wished the conference participants success and interesting discussions. She also thanked her colleagues from PNU and invited them to cooperate, in particular within the framework of student internships.
During the conference, scientists from Kherson, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Kyiv, and Krakow (Poland), etc., presented their research on the Russian-Ukrainian war.