Konstantin Ponomarev, born in Donetsk, was forced to change his place of residence in 2014 due to the outbreak of war and Russian occupation and moved first to Vinnytsia, where he lived for four months, and his final destination to Kyiv. From 2015 he studied at the College of the Navy and River Fleet named after Peter Sagaidachny, in 2017, he entered the National University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, where he is studying now. He was a member of the international organization AIESEC from 2017 to 2019, helped organize international conferences, the most prominent of which is the Youth Speak Forum 2019. Since 2020 he has been Vice President of the international organization ELSA and a member of Ukrainian Students for Freedom since 2020.

For me, the ideals of freedom are fundamental pillars of my personality. From 2014, when the war in eastern Ukraine began, I began to understand how important the principles underlying the libertarian worldview are in terms of the development of our society and the maintenance of peace. That’s why I believe that ideas of a free society must be developed in Ukraine, and because of this I decided to join the Ukrainian Students for Freedom.