{"id":35591,"date":"2026-05-13T15:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/35591\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:37:16","slug":"york-and-lviv-leaders-meet-to-discuss-resilience-city-of-york-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/35591\/","title":{"rendered":"York and Lviv leaders meet to discuss resilience \u2013 City of York Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image image--feature\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Visit_to_discuss_resilience.png\" alt=\"A group of people lined up in front of a large stone building\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            Leaders from Lviv and York, Resilience UK and the Cabinet Office meet<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta meta--date\">\n    Published Wednesday, 13 May 2026\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">The leaders of City of York Council and the Ukrainian city of Lviv, have met to discuss their cities\u2019 and residents\u2019 resilience.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday 16 April, Cllr Claire Douglas met members of Lviv city for their third meeting in 12 months. They were joined by representatives of the UK Resilience Academy based near Easingwold, and the UK\u2019s Cabinet Office.<\/p>\n<p>This latest meeting continues ongoing support for the Ukrainian community in York, and deepens the city\u2019s supportive relationship with Lviv.<\/p>\n<p>Lviv\u2019s Mayor Andriy Sadovyy told the meeting how his city has moved from dealing with sporadic crises to embedding systemic resilience. He described how they deal with, for example repeated attacks, cyber threats, fake bomb warnings, mass displacement of people, and the need to keep the city functioning.<\/p>\n<p>Risk reduction was discussed, as how governance needs to become more adaptive, connected, participatory and resilient.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Claire Douglas, Leader of City of York Council,\u00a0said:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Resilience is not just about an emergency response: it\u2019s about governance under prolonged layers of disruption and continuing essential city functions from a range of sources.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe learned so much from hearing how the city of Lviv and its residents have adapted. They have reprioritised and strengthened their systems to keep functioning under sustained stress. My admiration for their resolve and spirit is immense and the friendship and solidarity between our cities grows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from the delegation said:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>We also truly enjoyed our visit and were very pleased to meet the staff of UKRA and Cllr Douglas in person.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything was perfectly organized, and we greatly appreciated the warm hospitality extended by all members of the UK staff.\u00a0 We look forward to continuing and strengthening our cooperation in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaders from Lviv and York, Resilience UK and the Cabinet Office meet Published Wednesday, 13 May 2026 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16493,6372,5,523,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-35591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-lviv","9":"tag-resilience","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-ukraine","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116568015258536430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}