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A short film, “What Have We Lost?” written and acted by teenagers, will be screened in Kyiv. The film’s authors are children who survived the occupation, life near the fighting unfolded, traveling abroad, and other challenges of war. They will also present the film to journalists.

The teenagers created the film as part of an art therapy screenwriting course implemented by the Voices of Children Charitable Foundation. For three months, under the supervision of the director Marisa Nikitiuk, a group of children learned to live through the trauma of war through art.

The private screening of the film will take place on September 13.

Participants of the conversation:

• Nastia, Valeria, and Sofia, participants of the course, screenwriters, and actors of the film;
• Olena Rozvadovska, children’s human rights activist, Chair of the Voices of Children Foundation;
• Marysia Nikitiuk, film director (Ya.Nina, When Trees Fall), the screenwriting course tutor.

Actress Irma Vitovska and Azad Safarov, the second director of the “A House Made of Splinters” documentary, are others in attendance. 

Event accreditation is required.

For information: The Children’s Voices Charitable Foundation provides psychological and psychosocial support to children and parents affected by war.

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During Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Oleh decided to join the army to fight in the war. His unit was assigned to the 68th Jaeger Brigade. The man says that an enemy tank hit the building he was in. Shell fragments hit Oleh in the leg and severely injured it. Later, due to improper treatment, the metatarsal bone began to rot and had to be removed. 

However, now the man is a member of the #SavetheLimb National Program, which entails amputation-free survival. Healthcare professionals are working towards leg salvage. Some patients treated within the program, depending on the complexity of their injuries, may undergo as many as twenty surgeries to avoid limb amputation. 

For information: The “Save the Limb” national program was launched last year at the initiative of the International Charitable Foundation “Health of the Ukrainian People.” Its mission is to stop the disability of Ukrainians due to injuries to their arms and legs sustained during the war.

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On September 11, a presentation of a VR exhibition about the crimes of russians in the temporarily occupied territories will be held in Kyiv. During the presentation, the authors of the exhibition will show a clip from the documentary film, photos, as well as a VR-video with testimonies of Ukrainian citizens from de-occupied territories.

The VR video of the documentary project “Deoccupation ” will allow “transporting” the viewers to the de-occupied territories and, with the stories of eyewitnesses, viewers will be able to experience everything that happened there more fully. It will be possible to “visit” Kharkiv, Kukhari village (Kyiv Polissia) and settlements of Sivershchyna.

Participants:

• Oleksandra Romantsova, Executive Director at the Center for Civil Liberties
• Vitalii Poberezhnyi, Producer of the docuseries “Deoccupation”
• Karina Piliugina, Producer and Author of Ukraïner projects
• Spokesperson for the National Resistance Center of Ukraine

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Anton is 27. He is a surgical oncologist. The man was born in Donetsk region, since 2014 he has lived in Kharkiv. In order to help people who suffered as a result of the war, in August last year he joined the Ukrainian-Israeli mission of medical volunteers FRIDA Ukraine. And since in September 2022 the Armed Forces liberated the occupied territories of Kharkiv oblast, Anton participated in the first field medical missions to settlements de-occupied from the enemy. He recalls that he was most stricken by the sight of broken houses and burnt down tanks between them. And while helping people, he heard that fighting was still going on somewhere nearby.

In general, the medical volunteer managed to visit almost all the de-occupied settlements of Kharkiv region.

For reference: on September 6, 2022, Ukrainian troops launched a major counteroffensive in Kharkiv region. Subsequently, Kharkiv oblast was completely de-occupied.

The Ukrainian-Israeli medical volunteer movement FRIDA Ukraine has been helping civilians since the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Volunteer doctors (of various specialties) travel to the frontline and de-occupied regions (for example, Kharkiv, Kherson, or Donetsk regions), where they help local residents who complain about their health. In particular, they consult locals, perform surgeries, evacuate and distribute medicines.

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A team of beauty industry professionals will visit one of the de-occupied villages in Mykolaiv region on September 10. The beauty volunteers will give free haircuts and massages and do eyebrows to the villagers.

For reference, the idea of beauty volunteering belongs to makeup artist Olha Belytska. Together with like-minded people, Olha comes to the de-occupied settlements of the Kyiv region, as well as to the other areas of the country, to help people who have faced the horrors of the occupation feel beautiful again.

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The “Contemporary View” public union has been working with the military for several years in a row. In 2019, the organization held the first enrollment for soldiers who lost their sight in the war. And before the beginning of the big war, about ten such camps were held. Since the full-scale invasion, the public union has held two successful enrollment campaigns and started the third one. Military personnel and their families are invited to a rehabilitation center in Lviv region, where they are taught to take care of themselves, in particular, to navigate the city, cook food, use public transport and gadgets. Military personnel are trained by instructors who have also participated in combat operations and are visually impaired.

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In Kharkiv region, the Kharlamov family (mother Halyna, father Serhii, and son Yevhen) were evacuating people from under shelling since the beginning of the full-scale war. They became the founders of “Volunteer-68 Humanitarian Aid Center” NGO.

In particular, the volunteer family helped evacuate people across the Pechenihy dam in 2022, when part of Kharkiv region was still under occupation. Halyna recalls that it took people 5-6 hours to get to this dam alone, getting through more than 20 enemy checkpoints. Women with children, elderly people were completely exhausted. Almost every woman cried after reaching a safe place. And after the liberation of the region, “Volunteer-68” team drove into populated areas in ambulances and picked up people with limited mobility as well as everyone else who wanted to evacuate.

Recently, “Volunteer-68 Humanitarian Aid Center” NGO and Vostok-SOS Charitable Foundation initiated the opening of a temporary shelter in Kharkiv for low-mobility population groups and people with disabilities who are being evacuated from front-line communities.

For reference: on September 6, 2022, Ukrainian troops launched a major counteroffensive in Kharkiv region. Subsequently, Kharkiv region was completely de-occupied.

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The STRATCOM UKRAINE team, the founder of the Invictus Games in Ukraine, invites you to a joint viewing of the movie “Heart of Invictus” from Netflix, which premiered on August 30. The meeting will be held at the “Making of the Ukrainian Nation Museum” Museum.

Among other things, the event will include a tour of the museum, the joint viewing of the film and an opportunity to talk in an informal atmosphere. During the event, the organizers will recall the beginnings of Ukraine’s national team at the Invictus Games. They will also honor the memory of fallen heroes, who participated in the “Invictus Games Ukraine.”

For reference: The Invictus Games 2023 will be held on September 9-16 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Ukraine will be represented by a team of 25 veterans and servicemen who participated in the russo-Ukrainian war and were injured while performing or as a result of their duties in the combat zone.

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Journalists are invited to a press briefing on a training mission to provide prosthetic services to Ukrainians affected by the war. As part of the project started on August 21, doctors from the Medical Center Orthotics & Prosthetics (Maryland, USA) will train Ukrainian specialists to work with complex amputation cases and complex prosthetics. 

On Thursday, August 31, at a press briefing at the Superhumans Center, the first results of the exchange of experience between American and Ukrainian doctors, as well as the teams’ joint work on complex prosthetics for wounded soldiers, will be presented.

Event accreditation is required. Journalists will have the opportunity to talk to doctors and patients.

For reference, the Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics (MCOP) is an American medical center in Maryland specializing in prosthetics for patients who are missing limbs with complex amputation cases. The center is known for its work with the U.S. military, as it cooperates with the U.S. Department of Defense. The center’s doctors have prosthetically treated more than 1,000 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and annually prosthetically treat more than 350 patients on average.

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On August 30, the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Center for Civil Liberties is organizing “VOICES” rally in support of civilian prisoners.

The purpose of this rally is to draw the attention of both the Ukrainian and the global community to the problem of civilians forcibly detained by russia.

The rally will include the following events:

1. A meeting with relatives of civilians detained by russia;

2. Performance by the Actors For Future team, during which actors will show the conditions in which civilians are being kept;

3. Presentation of a brochure containing 50 stories of civilian prisoners, created within the framework of the Prisoners Voice initiative.

Accreditation is required. The rally will take place in Kyiv.

For reference: The Center for Civil Liberties is aware of more than 150 penitentiary facilities in russia and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine that detain civilians abducted during the occupation without reason. The prisoners were kidnapped from their own homes, on the way to the store or from the workplace.

If journalists are interested in the topics and stories of civilian prisoners and need professional comments, they are welcome to contact the Center for Civil Liberties.

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