Media Center Ukraine Producer Department

When the full-scale invasion began, Vesna was near the capital. After an enemy shell hit near her brother’s home, she evacuated to Kyiv with her parents. She later went abroad and lived in Germany for a year. There, she worked with Ukrainians, helping them with translations thanks to her fluency in German. In 2023, she decided to return home. She resumed her studies at the university and ultimately decided to join the military. 

Her older brother, who is also defending Ukraine in the Defense Forces, supported her decision. However, at the Territorial Recruitment Center (TRC), she was denied mobilization. Instead, she joined the 13th Khartiia Brigade, which accepts women. Currently, Vesna serves in the artillery, working with personnel and monitoring the soldiers’ moral and psychological state.

Journalists can speak with Vesna online or offline by arranging an appointment with the press officer in advance.

• military
• women

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Roberto Faletti, an Italian national, has come to Ukraine for the seventieth time since the start of the full-scale invasion. He first crossed the Ukrainian border on February 26, 2022, and has been volunteering and supporting Ukrainians ever since.

Together with his team, he founded the charitable organization La Memoria Viva, which delivers humanitarian aid to internally displaced persons, people from frontline areas, orphans, and the children of fallen Ukrainian soldiers. During his 70th mission, Roberto has visited the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Odesa, and Kherson oblasts.

Journalists can speak with Roberto Faletti online or offline by prior arrangement.

• volunteers

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On December 13 and 14, the AdoptMe Days adoption festival, where animals from over 40 shelters will be looking for homes, will take place in Kyiv. This is the nineteenth event, and 2,047 cats and dogs have found their families since the festival began.

A five-month-old cat named Izium became the 2,000th animal to find its pet parents at AdoptMe Days. He was evacuated from the Pokrovsk sector. Izium waited for his people for over two months and found them in October when a family took him home directly from the festival.

Those not ready for adoption can become Secret Santas for shelter animals by participating in a fundraiser, the proceeds of which will be distributed among the shelters at the end of the festival.

• animals
• Kyiv

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