Odesa Black Sea Security Forum Highlights: Interview With the Chairman - Oleksii Goncharenko

What this year’s Black Sea Security Forum was all about – its chairman tells Kyiv Post.

The Black Sea Security Forum in Odesa, initiated by a group of Ukrainian parliamentarians in 2024 under the leadership of Oleksii Goncharenko, MP, President of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons, and Chairman of the Black Sea Security Forum.

It has become the first and largest geopolitical event in southern Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion in 2022. It brings together key figures from national governments, international institutions and the expert community.

This year’s event, whose main sponsor was Lord Ashcroft, took place from 30 May 30 to June 1. Kyiv Post was a media partner.