Andrii Klymenko

Klymenko is currently being persecuted by the FSB for resisting the occupation of Crimea and is on the Russian Federation’s official list of terrorists and extremists.

Since 2014, together with the rest of the BlackSeaNews editorial staff, he has been working in Kyiv. In 2014, the author joined the Maidan of Foreign Affairs as Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Head of the Crimean Department. Since 2017, A. Klymenko has been the Head of the Monitoring Group of the «Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies» on the situation in Crimea and Southern Ukraine, the militarization of the Black Sea, freedom of navigation and international sanctions against the Russian Federation