The European Parliament Liaison Office in Poland and the Polish Press Agency (PAP) will host the event at the Parliament office on Jasna Street in Warsaw. The debate, “Media and European institutions: between disinformation and wartime propaganda. Joint actions of states, media and EU institutions,” is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.
The discussion will open with a presentation by Patryk Zakrzewski, vice president of the Demagog Association, titled “What we do not know about anti-Ukrainian propaganda in Poland.” A panel debate will follow with Raffaella De Marte, head of the European Parliament’s Decentralised Media Unit; Mattia Bernardo Bagnoli, ANSA diplomatic correspondent in Brussels; Nataliia Kostina, deputy director general of Ukrinform; and Tomasz Gruszka, head of the operational office of PAP. The debate will be moderated by PAP deputy editor-in-chief Zuzanna Dąbrowska.
After the debate, organizers will open the “Ukraine in focus” exhibition, featuring photographs from the archives of PAP and Ukrinform.
The show “focuses on everyday life in a country affected by war, but also on the solidarity and support coming from across Europe,” said curator Katarzyna Liebrecht, head of PAP’s Photo Archive Team. “It is a story about suffering and hope, about destruction and reconstruction, about people who, despite everything, remain and fight,” she said.
The photographs “not only document the drama of Ukraine — they also remind us of the strength of a community that does not allow the world to look away,” Liebrecht said. “Each of these images is a point of focus that restores clarity to a gaze blurred by propaganda,” she added, noting that the exhibition is meant to bring back the meaning of “truth, empathy and humanity.”
Liebrecht said she selected images that “show the truth about the war, but without drastic shots.” Instead, she chose more symbolic scenes to depict daily struggle, resilience and strength.
“I would like the photos to encourage people to pause and reflect, so that the viewer feels not only the burden of war, but also the extraordinary dignity and determination of people who face its consequences every day,” she said.
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Source: PAP