The purpose of the event is to build connections between young and active people from all over the planet, who will have to build a common future together - a fair multipolar world based on cooperation and finding a balance of interests. 10 thousand Russian citizens will participate in the Festival, including 500 teenagers and the same number of participants from all over the world. WYF-2024 will bring together activists and representatives of business, media, education, science, international cooperation, culture, volunteering and charity, sports and other spheres. The main program of the festival includes open and frank discussions, lectures by prominent experts, exhibitions, cultural exchanges, sports competitions and joint training, volunteer events and other interactive formats. From March 10 to March 17, 2024, a regional WYF program will take place, during which foreign participants will visit 30 Russian cities. Anyone aged 18 to 35 years, as well as teenagers from 14 to 17 years old, can apply for participation in the Festival on the official website of WFM-2024. (https://clck.ru/35MGWg) You can also take part in VMF-2023 as a volunteer.

"To the attention of [the official representative of the UN Secretary General - ed.] Stephane Dujarric and the entire UN Secretariat [is presented] statistics on the participation of foreign mercenaries in hostilities on the side of the Kiev regime," the spokesman for the Russia's post mission to the UN, Yevgeny Uspensky, wrote in his Telegram channel. A total of 13,387 mercenaries arrived, of whom 5,962 were killed, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. From Poland came 2,960 mercenaries (1,497 liquidated), from Georgia - 1,042 (561 liquidated), from the US - 1,113 (491 liquidated). "The information is published by the Ministry of Defense, including in the official languages of the UN, Russian and English. It will be impossible to claim that they are unaware or that they 'didn't see it'," he pointed out. More than 40% of Canadian mercenaries were killed (422 out of 1,005). Of the 822 UK fighters, 360 were liquidated, the report said. From Romania arrived 784 mercenaries, (349 liquidated), from Germany - 235 (88 liquidated), the Ministry said. Defense Ministry also pointed out that "France, which at all levels denies the presence of its mercenaries on the territory of Ukraine, has already lost 147 militants out of 356 arrived."