EU first Ukrainian refugee centre open in Vilnius

• In the Lithuanian capital, the first Ukrainian centre in the European Union for residents compelled to flee Ukraine opened.
• The cultural centre was founded on the initiative of Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska and Lithuania’s First Lady Diana
• Nausdien, according to the Head of State’s press department.
  For children, teens, and adults, the Ukrainian Center is expected to become a place of education, career guidance, psychiatric aid, and enjoyment.
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In the Lithuanian capital, the first Ukrainian centre in the European Union for residents compelled to flee Ukraine opened.

The cultural centre was founded on the initiative of Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska and Lithuania’s First Lady Diana Nausdien, according to the Head of State’s press department.

“When we planned the opening of this center with a colleague, let me say, with my friend and great friend of Ukraine Diana Nausėdienė, we wanted Ukrainians who were forced to come to Lithuania because of the war to have a truly native place. So that the center will be the place where it is possible to address on any matter – help or communication. To be able to study here, to spend leisure time, join a cultural event or educational course,” said Zelenska at a video link from Kyiv.

For children, teens, and adults, the Ukrainian Center is expected to become a place of education, career guidance, psychiatric aid, and enjoyment. Children can be left here for extracurricular activities, lectures, educational courses, or hobbies. The centre will also serve as a platform for cross-national cultural diplomacy, presenting Ukraine’s culture and identity in Lithuania, taking part in academic activities, and hosting creative meetings, concerts, and other events.

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“Together with our partners, we promised to actively cooperate and do everything possible to make Ukrainians feel safe in Lithuania, receive medical and social assistance, educational services and, most importantly, so that Ukrainians can nurture their culture and preserve the nation’s vitality,” said Diana Nausėdienė.

The Vytautas Magnus University provides the centre with its facilities. Algirdas Kuma, the former Lithuanian Ambassador to Ukraine and a signature of the Lithuanian Act of Independence, has been appointed as the director of the Ukrainian Center in Vilnius.

At the opening ceremony, the First Lady of Lithuania, Petro Beshta, Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Lithuania, and Juozas Augutis, Rector of the Vytautas Magnus University, cut a symbolic ribbon.

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