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Volodymyr Moisei is a master of sports in powerlifting. His story began with an ordinary trip to the gym. And within a year, with the help of the coach, Volodymyr met his first standard.

In 2019, the athlete got into a traffic accident and lost his arm. After two and a half months, he began his return to professional sports, developed a special strap to help him lift a bar with extreme weights and thought about the world record. When the Great War began, Volodymyr’s hometown, Berdyansk, was occupied. Due to the injury, the man could not join the army and took up volunteering. Later, he was able to evacuate his family from Berdyansk to Switzerland, and he himself returned to Ukraine.

In March 2023, Volodymyr visited the U.S.-based “Arnold Sports Festival” – as an adaptive athlete in the weight class of under 100 kilograms, he lifted the weight of 260 kilograms and set a world record in powerlifting. The athlete dedicated his record to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and his family.

For reference: Volodymyr Moisei is ready to communicate with journalists, both online and offline by prior arrangement.

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A “Miracle Village” set in the Kolonshchyna village, Kyiv region. The project was developed for elderly people who lost their homes due to Russian military aggression.

Accommodation is free of charge. The apartments are modernly renovated and furnished. The “village” will also have a clubhouse where the older adults could spend their leisure time. Among other things, there will be a medical center, hairdresser’s, and dentist’s offices.

Currently, 68 people already reside in the “Miracle Village”.

For reference: The “Miracle Town” was built with the support of the “To Ukraine With Love” Charitable Foundation and American businessman and philanthropist Dell Loy Hansen.

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• Kyiv

The FACE TO FACE mission of American plastic and reconstructive surgeons is coming to the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center in Lviv.

On November 12-17, a team of American surgeons, together with Lviv-based specialists, will conduct free consultations and reconstructive surgeries for the military and civilian Ukrainians who suffered due to the war and received face and neck injuries.

Specialists will include: plastic, maxillofacial and reconstructive surgeons, ENT physicians, orthopedists and ophthalmologists. The doctors have already selected patients for complex reconstructive face and neck surgeries. All surgical interventions and their time in the clinic will be free of charge. In general, 42 patients are to receive help as part of this mission.

Prior accreditation is required.

For reference: the humanitarian program was created in cooperation with the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS) (The Educational and Research Foundation) as well as Razom for Ukraine and INgenius organizations.

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• Lviv

Volunteers of the Save Ukraine charitable foundation evacuate people from areas near the front line. Since early November this year, more than 105 thousand Ukrainians have been provided with help. Most of them are families with children.

By prior arrangement, journalists are welcome to talk to families rescued from frontlines. 

As a reminder, volunteers of the Save Ukraine charitable foundation also organize rescue missions to return Ukrainian children illicitly transferred to Russia and Russian-controlled territories. The first mission took place a year ago, on November 8, 2022. In total, as of November 2023, the charity workers have brought 200 children back.

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Before the full-fledged invasion, Inna Yakovenko dealt with selling windows and doors. The businesswoman runs two trade pavilions in the village of Novovorontsovka in the Kherson region. At the outbreak of the full-blown, the woman’s village remained the only Ukraine-controlled one in the Novovorontsovka community. However, the settlement has come under Russian strikes hitting nearly every day for 7 months. Inna lived in the basement throughout August 2022, because of the nonstop shell rains. The heavy bombardment damaged the trade pavilions where Inna was selling. So, after the Ukrainian military liberated the community, the entrepreneur chose a new path and set up a granite dust block production facility to help rebuild dwellings for villagers who had begun to return home. Now she plans to scale up production to create as many jobs as possible.

For reference: November 11, 2023, marks the one-year anniversary of retaking Kherson. Also, during last year’s counteroffensive in southern Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated some districts of the Kherson region and part of the Mykolaiv region on the right bank of the Dnipro River.

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Oleksandr Markov is a board-certified neurosurgeon. In 2015, he took up arms and joined a volunteer battalion. After returning from the front, Oleksandr took on rehabilitating civilians and soldiers at first, as a hired employee, and after 2022, as the founder of a rehabilitation center in Kharkiv. Oleksandr won a grant and received financial support from the Ukrainian Veterans Foundation and started working with military personnel who required his professional help.

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Born in Odesa, Hennadii immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of 13. There he got an education. As an adult, he worked as a truck driver.

When he learned about the full-scale invasion of Russia, he decided to return to Ukraine and protect his country. He served in the Third Separate Special Forces Battalion of the International Defense Legion of Ukraine. In December 2022, during an assault on an enemy position in the Luhansk region, the soldier stepped on a landmine. He lost an eye and two legs in the explosion.

The man was offered to go abroad for treatment, but he did not want to leave Ukraine.

Soon, journalists are welcome to talk to Hennadii in Lviv.

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• Lviv

From now on, Ukrainian servicemen can join training sessions from anywhere in the country. All this is part of the online training project from the organizers of the Games of Heroes competition. The online platform of rehabilitation training was launched in September of this year. This is a unique system of exercises developed by coaches Julia Koval and Valerii Kysil, which aims to rehabilitate military personnel with amputations and return them to a full life.

For reference: The “Game of Heroes” competition was first started in 2016. The project was founded by Yevhen Koval, and headed by Roman Lindov, a Kyiv native who was injured on February 18, 2014, during the Revolution of Dignity. The “Games of Heroes” were held annually until February 2022, in particular, among veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard, and the Border Guard Troops. 

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First enrollment at the course “Fundamentals of Rehabilitation of People with Visual Impairments” is starting in Ukraine to train specialists who work with military and civilians who have completely or partially lost their sight as a result of the war.

The courses are free of charge. They will be held in online and offline formats. Шn particular, students will study issues of social and domestic rehabilitation and comprehensive rehabilitation of people with vision impairments.

The training program is aimed at employees of rehabilitation centers, social workers, employees of veteran organizations, etc.

By prior agreement, journalists will be able to cover in-person classes.

For reference: The training is implemented by the “League of the Strong” public union together with Charity Organization 03:00 Foundation.

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Yurii Zdor took up arms back in 2015, when Russia first attacked Ukraine. For the man, it seemed the only logical decision to make. He fought in different brigades and completed his military service as the 72nd Brigade named after the Black Cossacks member. The fighter was on standby when the full-scale invasion broke out, he has packed up all his belongings. Yurii’s wife Svitlana stayed at home in Chernihiv, and her husband went to Kyiv.

Yurii and his unit took part in heavy battles in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. He was seriously wounded and lost his leg while fighting in eastern Ukraine. Yurii’s spouse says that waiting for her husband for stabilization point discharge was the hardest part, then she found he was getting treatment from the intensive care unit and never left him.

Yurii and Svitlana reside in Chernihiv. They are ready to talk to journalists, both offline and online.

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