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In a column for Ukrainska Pravda<\/em>, Denys Bloshchynskyi, Director of the From Country to Ukraine<\/em> Social Innovation Foundation, reflects on the aftermath of the 24 July tragedy<\/a> in Kyiv region, where eleven people were killed and around one hundred injured during a defence industry event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Responding to the widespread online reaction \u2014 \u201cWho even holds large public events during wartime?\u201d<\/em> \u2014 Bloshchynskyi argues that everyone does. Every week, hundreds of gatherings take place across Ukraine, bringing together dozens or hundreds of people: defence exhibitions and demonstrations essential to the arms industry, business forums, concerts, fairs, sporting events, religious services and school celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His main argument is that, five years into Russia\u2019s full-scale war, Ukraine cannot remain in permanent lockdown. Yet today, the right to gather is protected by little more than luck and the judgment of individual organisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bloshchynskyi proposes several practical measures, summarised by one principle: the maximum attendance of any event should not exceed the capacity of a shelter that can be reached within the available warning time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n