Feedback Live streaming video of a meeting with Roma veterans who voluntarily joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The event was organised on 29 April 2025 in Brussels by ADC ‘Memorial’ in partnership with the Ukrainian Centre of Romani Studies at Kherson State University and with the support of IPHR.
The idea of the event was to bring to the EU capital the voices of Roma from Ukraine, who share the hardships of war alongside other Ukrainians—many of them have chosen to defend their country on the battlefields. The speakers were Arsen Mednik and Oleksii Panchenko, veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of Roma origin, as well as Yanush Panchenko, an expert, researcher, and co-founder of the Ukrainian Centre of Romani Studies at KSU. Yanush was forced to flee the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region and continues his human rights work in exile.
The event included a screening of a fragment from a documentary film about Arsen Mednik.