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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Louise Boyle

Ukraine’s leading campaigner against Russian fossil fuels refused entry to top US energy conference

Svitlana Romanko

A Ukrainian lawyer, who founded the war-torn country’s leading campaign against Russian fossil fuels, has been refused entry to the world’s most prominent energy summit.

Svitlana Romanko travelled from her home in Ivano-Frankivsk, western Ukraine, in late February to Houston, Texas to attend CERAWeek, an annual summit which attracts the heads of major oil and gas companies and industry bodies along with senior government officials.

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