Speaker

Jonas Ohman was born in 1965 in Sweden; at present, he lives in Lithuania, where he was granted citizenship by president Dalia Grybauskaite in 2019. Jonas is a former filmmaker, translator, and journalist. Since 2014,  he heads the NGO Blue/Yellow, supporting the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with non-lethal equipment. At this point, the organization has provided support for about 80 million EUR to a wide range of military units in Ukraine. Jonas is decorated about 30 times for his services to Ukraine, three times by the presidents of Ukraine and Lithuania. He is fluent in Swedish, Lithuanian, English, German, Russian and Ukrainian.