Event report from Ukraine As part of the World Interfaith Harmony Week, 3 events were held in Ukraine under the joint title “Interfaith Understanding for Victory: Cooperation in Service and Resistance to Evil”. The initiators of the Week: the Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion (UARR), the Department of Religious Studies of the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (VR IF NASU) with the support of the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience (DESS), the Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU), the All-Ukrainian Council of Religious Associations (VRRO) with information support from the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center (UKMC), the Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU), and the 1st center of information and communication support of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.     On February 4, 2025 – Press conference “The Regulatory and Legal Framework of Chaplaincy Activities and Interfaith Understanding in Modern Ukraine” https://fb.watch/xxMSvgnFjV/ The event discussed: – The evolution of legal regulation of chaplaincy activities in Ukraine. – The role of interfaith cooperation in strengthening national unity. – The contribution of religious organizations to overcoming the challenges of war and ensuring social stability. – Important issues that stand at the intersection of spirituality, law and public service.   Speakers: Vyacheslav Gorshkov, Head of the Department of Religious Affairs of the DESS Oleksandr Sagan, Head of the Department of Religious Studies of the NAS of Ukraine Vita Tytarenko, Senior Officer of the 1st Center for Information and Communication Support of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Liudmyla Fylypovych, President of the Ukrainian Autonomous Republic – Moderator   On February 6, 2025 – Expert and practical panel “Spiritual protection of the Ukrainian soldier”https://uacrisis.org/uk/shho-treba-dlya-zabezpechennya-duhovnogo-zahystu-ukrayinskogo-voyina The penel discussed the needs and resources for the effective work of chaplains, their role in supporting the morale of the military. Participants discussed tools for overcoming interfaith conflicts, ensuring the spiritual needs of the military, establishing cooperation between religious communities, society and the state. 8 speakers spoke – chaplains, representatives of the state, science and civil society   On February 7, 2025 – Online round table “Contextual requirements and conceptual clarifications of interfaith relations in the situation of Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine: from interfaith tolerance to cooperation to confront evil” Part 1 Cooperate to confront evil. To the week of interfaith understanding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7iDDt1R2HA&t=545s&ab_channel= Speakers: Liudmyla Fylypovych (Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, President of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Leading Research Fellow of the Department of Religious Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) “The Religious Situation in Ukraine in the Context of the War (Based on the Research Materials of the Razumkov Center)” Georgii Kovalenko (Candidate of Philosophy, Rector of the Open Orthodox University of Saint Sophia-Wisdom) “War as a Catalyst and a Challenge for Interreligious and Interfaith relations” Said Ismagilov (Serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ex-Mufti of Muslims of Ukraine, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences) “Activities of Russian Muslim Centers in the Temporarily Occupied Territory” Part 2 Interfaith Understanding for the Victory over Evil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RWmwmviAJI&ab_channel= Speakers: Alla Aristova (Professor, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Head of the Department of Socio-Humanities. DNU “Encyclopedic Publishing House”) “”Catholic Encyclopedia Online Edition”: Pro-Russian Assessments of War and Interfaith Relations” Roman Solovii (Dr. Phil., Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Theology and Humanities of the Classical Private University, Head of the East European Institute of Theology) “Hospitality of Translation, Exchange of Memory and Forgiveness: In Search of a New Ethos of Interfaith Relations with Paul Ricker and Richard Kearney” Andriy Dudchenko (Archpriest, Doctor of Philosophy in Theology, Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy) “Cooperation or Competition in the Liturgical Tradition” Part 3 Understanding and Cooperation as a Key to the Survival and Victory of Ukrainians of Different Faiths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8xCJAgPzeY&t=2171s&ab_channel= Speakers: Anatolii Kushnirchuk (military chaplain of the Bucha Military Training Center) “Stitching the context with faith in Christ” Oksana Horkusha (Candidate of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, NASU) “From Tolerance to Cooperation – Contextual Modalities of Interaction of Confessional Subjects of the Ukrainian World” Olexandr Plis, (Rector of the Spiritual Academy of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness) “On Tolerance as a Pledge unity in the spiritual dimension”