On December 4, 2017, a working group meeting with US experts in the framework of the UP-9 project “The spread of African swine fever virus (ASFV) in domestic pigs and wild boar in Ukraine – Building capacity for insight into the transmission of ASFV through characterization of virus isolates by genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis” was held at the IVM NAAS. Work with experts will last until December 8. Representatives of IVM, State Research Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary and Sanitary Expertise and NSC “Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine”, as well as experts from the University of Alaska, Anchorage and representatives of Metabiota, are taking part in the meeting.