Ukraine is receiving international teams — reconstruction, energy, defense-adjacent, humanitarian, and media — in volumes not seen since 2022. Most of their safety protocols haven't caught up with how the threat picture has actually changed.

On July 24, ballistic missiles hit a defense-industry exhibition at a private training ground in Kyiv Oblast, killing at least 12 and injuring around 100 — a location everyone involved would have called "the rear." On August 28, a drone strike on a warehouse in Myla, Bucha district, triggered secondary explosions that killed 37 people who weren't the target at all — they simply lived and worked next to it. In September, Russia spent two days attacking the rail network, striking a passenger train in Lutsk and a locomotive at Yahodyn, near the Polish border, with 200+ passengers aboard — the only reason no one on that train was hurt is that a monitoring team caught the warning in time and the crew acted on it.

Geography stopped being a reliable proxy for risk months ago. This session is about what replaces it.

Kateryna Sergatskova, CEO of Daily Humanity — an award-winning Ukrainian journalist who has covered the war since 2014, now leading a hostile-environment training and duty-of-care consultancy for media, humanitarian, and corporate teams — will walk through:

• What's actually changed in the threat picture: long-range jet-powered drones (2,500+ in August alone), daytime strikes on previously "rear" locations, and a target set that's shifted toward the civilian-adjacent economy — warehouses, logistics hubs, rail, industrial sites.
• Why standard duty-of-care policies, built for ordinary business travel, don't survive contact with this environment.
• A practical, five-step risk assessment any manager can run in under an hour: identify specific risks, rate likelihood against impact, make a go/no-go call against pre-set criteria, mitigate what ranks highest, and plan for the situation changing after departure.
• Why one named person needs unambiguous go/no-go authority before departure — and why the culture around that decision (never penalizing someone for stopping) matters as much as who holds it.
• Why a risk assessment is worthless if the team can't execute it — and why proximity to experienced colleagues is not the same as trained muscle memory under stress.

REGISTER HERE: https://luma.com/edth_dailyhumanity

HEAT (Hostile Environment Awareness Training) with FPV drones is an innovative approach to preparing for work in hazardous environments, incorporating relevant practical scenarios with real challenges.

The program combines updating knowledge in tactical medicine, security in war conditions and practical scenarios using drones and pyrotechnics to create the most realistic conditions.

Who would benefit from this training:

· Enterprises operating in high-risk areas or with sensitive production

· Humanitarian missions

· Journalists, media workers, documentarians

· Employees of public organizations operating in high-risk areas

· Government agencies, employees of local communities in high-risk areas

Why is it needed?

Modern warfare produces new threats: FPV drones, quadcopters with discharges, mine danger and a combination of these factors with shelling. Survival and efficiency in such conditions directly depend on the skills to act correctly and consciously during emergency situations. HEAT+DRONES allows you to practice action algorithms in realistic scenarios, as close as possible to combat ones.

Training modules include:

Risk assessment

• Situational awareness and risk assessment during an emergency
• Risk assessment matrix in a hostile environment
• Risk management system and strategies
• Fundamentals of effective communication in a high-risk environment
• Scenario work

Tactical medicine

• Stopping critical bleeding
• Applying tourniquets
• Evacuation and first aid under fire

Mine hazard

• Responding to explosions
• Basics and rules of lying down
• Moving under fire
• Basics of explosion and explosion factors
• Behavior in dangerous areas
• Practical actions when detecting explosive objects

Safety during drone attacks

• Recognition of FPV drones and risk reduction tactics
• Types of combat drones, electronic warfare, tactics of use
• Responding to quadcopters with discharges
• Action in open space, in transport and premises

Practical scenarios

• Realistic simulations using pyrotechnics and FPV drones
• Situations: evacuation during shelling, mine danger, drone penetration into the premises, drone hunting, kamikaze drone attack
• 90% practice and 10% error analysis after completing the tasks

The package includes:

No-fault and drone-specific insurance

Certificate of passing HEAT (basis for obtaining insurance and permission to work in high-risk areas)

Training equipment: body armor, helmets, med-kits, other equipment

Location rental (training ground, conference room)

Meals

Coffee breaks

Transfer to the training venue

Not included:

Accommodation

Travel expenses except for local transfer

Training clothing

All-inclusive package is available - contact us for details.

What this is

Distance from the front line is no longer a risk assessment. Warehouses, logistics hubs, exhibitions and passenger trains have all been struck this year, far from the fighting and in daylight. Most organizations still decide who travels on instinct.

This course replaces that with a process — in four and a half hours of live instruction, online, without anyone getting on a plane.

What you will do

Pre-work — 45 minutes, in your own time

Baseline self-assessment, current environment brief, alert typology, short

video primers. Your worksheet is issued before the program starts.

Module 1 — The environment and the decision. How people are actually being hurt, through three real incidents from this year. Then you complete a risk assessment on your own upcoming trip, live, with an instructor in the room.

Module 2 — Getting in, staying, getting out. Rail versus road. Borders, checkpoints, fuel stops, curfew. Choosing a hotel and choosing the room. Finding shelter on arrival. What not to post, and why.

Module 3 — When it goes wrong. What kills people in the first minutes. What is in a trauma kit and where it is carried. The first ten minutes of an incident. Then a full scenario against live injects.

Who it is for

Business delegations, reconstruction and energy contractors, investors and due-diligence teams, donor and institutional visitors, new media and humanitarian staff, and the managers who sign off on their travel.

What you leave with

A completed risk assessment for a real deployment. A named decision-maker and written conditions for turning back. A pre-deployment checklist, a pocket card, and a certificate valid for 12 months. Organizations receive an aggregate report of completion and remaining gaps.

What it is not

This is not HEAT or HEFAT and does not replace them. The online course contains no practical medical training — trauma skills cannot be certified through a screen, so we teach recognition and decision-making and point you to hands-on training. Your certificate states this plainly.

Also available

A 90-minute drone threats module, added at enrolment at additional price.

In-person delivery in Kyiv, Copenhagen, Lisbon or at your offices across the EU, on request — which adds hands-on trauma practice, shelter and vehicle drills, and live FPV simulation.

Delivered in English by instructors working in these environments now. 4,000+ professionals trained across 38 countries.