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Bohdan is 27 and was born in Donetsk. He studied at the Donetsk National Medical University, but in 2014 he had to transfer to Kyiv and continue his education.

Before the full-scale war, he worked as a cardiologist in private medical centers. After February 24, 2022, he joined the FRIDA Ukraine Ukrainian-Israeli medical volunteer mission. He provided medical assistance for over 50 medical missions. He treated people in the de-occupied and frontline territories. He had to deal with his work accompanied by the sounds of explosions and doing his job in shelters. During this time, the doctor conducted lifesaving missions to Ukrainians in Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kherson, Sumy, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, and Dnipro regions.

Recently, Bohdan became the head of a project launched by FRIDA Ukraine in the Kharkiv region together with Polska Misja Medyczna: mobile clinics operate in the region. The team of doctors will have patient appointments in different parts of the de-occupied Kharkiv region for six months.

Journalists are also welcome to cover how mobile clinics operate in the Kharkiv region.

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• Kharkiv
• Kyiv

To commemorate the Earth Overshoot Day, “Let’s do it Ukraine” invites media representatives, opinion leaders and volunteers to join the Good Kitchen, an environmentally friendly cookhouse on August 18, 2023 to make and deliver hot meals for IDPs and the Ukrainians affected by the war.

During the event, each of the participants can personally become a charity kitchen volunteer and prepare dinners for residents of the affected areas of Mykolaiv region.

Transfer services from Kyiv to Mykolaiv and back will be provided for journalists.

Accreditation required.

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• Mykolaiv

On August 17, another rotation will start at the camp supporting the psychological and emotional state of teenagers from Kherson region, who suffered as a result of hostilities and by the explosion of the Kakhovka HPP caused by the occupiers. The camp is located in Truskavka, Lviv region. For 14 days, the visitors will focus on restoring their psycho-emotional state with the help of professional trainers and psychologists. Every day, teenagers will play outdoor games, engage in physical activity, attend trainings and master classes.

For reference: Leisure for teenagers from Kherson region is organized by the Coordination Center “Power of Youth” of the Ukrainian Leadership Academy together with the “JuniorS” NGO.

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• Lviv

Kateryna Onishchenko lived in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, after the start of russia’s full-scale invasion, she and her husband immediately started volunteering. Subsequently, the couple founded their own Volunteer Center in Kramatorsk and Hatiko UA charitable foundation, which began to care for disadvantaged people and animals in the east of the country. For more than a year, Kateryna and her husband have been taking care of those who need help: they bring food, clothes and medicines, as well as food and animal cages. Volunteers often delivered humanitarian aid to the hot spots at the front-line, in particular, they went to Avdiivka and Chasiv Yar. They also evacuate four-legged friends and their owners to safe places. 

Important notice: Kateryna Onishchenko is currently in Lviv, ready to communicate with journalists both online and in person. Kateryna’s husband is willing to meet with journalists in Kramatorsk.

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At the Superhumans Center, a modern rehabilitation and prosthetics center for war victims, hydrotherapy is used as one of the methods of rehabilitation. There is a state-of-the-art pool that is specifically adapted to the needs of patients. The treatment improves both the physical and psychological condition of the victims.

Patients can exercise in the pool only when wearing a special waterproof prosthesis. 

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• Lviv

At the end of July, a temporary shelter was opened in Kharkiv for representatives of low mobility groups and people with disabilities who are being evacuated from frontline communities. They, for example, take care of bedridden people, people in wheelchairs or on crutches. The shelter is designed for 30 people. One can stay there for up to three weeks. But, if necessary, the period of stay can be extended.

For reference: This shelter has been created as a result of a joint initiative of Vostok SOS Charitable Foundation and Volunteer-68 Center for Humanitarian Aid.

Since the beginning of the full-scale war, representatives of “Volunteer-68” have been taking care of people with disabilities and physical disorders. Among other things, volunteers take people out of shelled areas and provide humanitarian aid.

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• Kharkiv

On Friday, August 11, Center for Endoprosthetics, Osseointegration and Bionics will hold a press conference. In particular, the participants will announce the first shoulder osseointegration surgery and there will be a knee replacement surgery demonstration.

Military personnel who have already received free surgical assistance invited to the press conference include:

Oleksandr Davydov, who was seriously injured in the explosion while providing cover for his brothers in arms with his own body;

Roman Kuksiuk, who was wounded during fierce fighting near Bakhmut;

Andrii Oshlakov, who came under artillery fire near Lysychansk;

The format of the press conference includes a demonstration of knee arthroplasty technique. Serhii Mynder will undergo surgery. In 2015 he joined the intelligence service and was wounded during the Anti-Terrorist Operation. With the beginning of a full-scale invasion, he went to war again. He went through Bucha, Marinka, Kozelets and Troitske.

Leading doctors of the country will take part in the event. The “Life Saving Center” charitable foundation provides free treatment of servicemen at the Center for Endoprosthetics, Osseointegration and Bionics.

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• military
• Kyiv

On August 8, the Lots of Care project, aimed at multidisciplinary rehabilitation for wounded defenders, will be presented at the Media Center Ukraine – Ukrinform. 

Participants:

Serhii Kryzhanovskyi, Chief Doctor at a rehabilitation center

Oleksandr Hudimov, Serviceman in the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Oleksandr Gudimov, soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Olga Kharlan, Ukraine fencer, Olympic champion.

The “Lots of Care” project aims to raise funds for the high-quality rehabilitation of injured military personnel by selling lots at auction (about 50 famous people will sell lots). All the funds raised will be used for the effective rehabilitation of our defenders.

Event accreditation is required.

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• military
• Kyiv

In Lviv, soldiers who have lost their limbs and are going through a rehabilitation process can give the most extreme sports, such as rope free-flying, a try. It is about jumping with a rope over the Arena Lviv stadium from a height of 34 meters. The jumps are free for the defenders. The initiative is organized by the charitable foundation “With an Angel on Your Shoulder.” According to the benefactors, 13 soldiers have already made extreme jumps, and dozens are more daring to experience it.

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• Lviv

Roman is an artist from Lviv who taught at the Ukrainian Academy of Printing. On the first day of the full-scale war, he voluntarily joined the Armed Forces. In between combat missions and shelling, he drew with pencils.

He was badly wounded in June this year near Bakhmut. Shrapnel cut the right side of his body. The arm he used to paint with was injured by shrapnel, and his traumatized. Doctors managed to save both limbs.

Now the guy is rehabilitating at the UNBROKEN Center and can hold a brush in his hand again. Roman even had his first master class for UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center, where he taught other wounded defenders how to paint.

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