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The russians abducted 47-year-old Serhii Hrypun from Nove village of Zaporizhia Oblast, where he worked for an agrarian firm. The russian military personnel entered the premises of Serhii’s firm and established their headquarters there. Getting in touch with him became impossible, and his relatives had not received any information about him for several weeks. His daughter Yulia, who is searching for her father, told the Media Initiative for Human Rights that she found out about his whereabouts in April from a released hostage who had seen Serhii in russia. Serhii Khrypun is held captive in Kursk pre-trial detention center. The kidnapped Ukrainians are subjected to torture; for instance, they were beaten with a stun gun and truncheons on the day they arrived at the detention center. The released hostage also told Yulia about Serhii’s condition, who had broken ribs and bruised legs.

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On September 12, beauty volunteers from Kyiv will visit the village of Dymer in Kyiv Oblast. Nail technicians, hair stylists, makeup artists, and massage therapists will work with locals for free. The idea of beauty volunteers for the liberated villages came from Olha Belytska, a makeup artist. This spring, she worked for patients at Okhmatdyt Hospital in Kyiv, where she heard some women complaining about lying there without hairdo and makeup, having just come to after barely escaping projectiles and cluster bombs. Thus, Olha and her friends come to the de-occupied towns and villages of Kyiv Oblast every week to help people feel beautiful again after the horrors of the occupation.

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Keep Going Ukraine-based project provides financial support to the Ukrainians who are nearing the victory and tells their stories. In particular, UAH 600,000 have already been raised for Oleksandr Kryvoshey, a farmer from Kyiv region, who in March directed Ukrainian artillery at his own warehouse, captured by the russians. The farmer will use the money to restore the roof of the building.

People who received help include: Oleksandr Schelokov, the owner of Mi-Lo-Ko, craft cheese factory in Kyiv region. The goats from the farms, where he bought milk, were killed in a missile attacks. Another project under Keep Going is focused on the aid for the owner of Kust Ceramics Studio, Viktor Kuschenko. A man conducts free pottery classes for the children of refugees in Vorokhta.

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Heorhiy Molchanov is a winemaker from the south of Ukraine. His lands are located on the banks of the Pivdennyi Buh, near Mykolaiv, which suffers from enemy shelling every day. His enterprise itself was also bombed: a russian shell exploded next to the winery. However, shelling is not the only problem of Ukrainian winemakers. Logistics, lack of workers, and in the south there are also difficulties with access to drinking water. How is it possible to not only survive in such conditions, but also create new Ukrainian wines?

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As of Spetmber 6, it has been 40 days since the terrorist attack in Olenivka. On July 28, a powerful explosion took place on the territory of the former correctional colony in the city of Olenivka, Donetsk region, which is currently used as a place of detention for Ukrainian POWs. According to russian sources, about 40 Ukrainians were killed as a result of the explosion. Only 25 days after the tragedy, the UN created a group to conduct an investigation, which has not begun yet. Representatives of “LADIES OF STEEL” Council of Wives and Mothers of Ukraine’s Defenders still do not know about the fate of their relatives. What ways out of the situation have the families of prisoners of war put forward?

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In March, Oleksandr Kryvosheia, a farmer, called the Ukrainian artillery fire onto his warehouse in Kozarovychi village in Kyiv Oblast, where russian invaders were based. The russians occupied his farm on February 25 and lived there for more than a month. Over this period, the invaders ate more than a hundred sheep, half of his livestock. The building’s roof, seed grain, and equipment burned down due to the Ukrainian artillery strike on the farm. However, Oleksandr does not begrudge the property destroyed by the Ukrainian missiles. On the contrary, he says, chasing away the enemy was the most important thing.

Now, he is restoring his farm from scratch. The Keep Going project raises UAH 600,000 for Oleksandr to install the new roof on the warehouse. Half of the target amount has already been raised.

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The Center for Mental Health has started working in Lviv. There, Lviv residents and refugees can receive help from a psychologist, psychiatrist, and sexologist.

Lviv City Council noted that according to statistics, every third person in Ukraine suffers from a mental health disorder. A person may not even recognize that they have such a disorder. In the meantime, a family doctor can recognize this and refer such a person to the Center for Mental Health. Such centers are planned to be opened in every polyclinic of the city.

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Lviv physicians are rescuing a lady from Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast gravely injured by the explosion of a russian missile. The missile hit nearby, and she was buried under a heap of soil. Barely alive, she was extracted from a 5-m deep shell crater created by the explosion. Oksana was hospitalized in Dnipro immediately. She spent 11 days in the intensive care unit. As soon as her condition was stabilized, an evacuation train brought her to the St. Panteleimon Hospital in Lviv. Currently, Traumatology and Orthopedics Unit specialists are treating Oksana’s abdomen, arm, and leg wounds.

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A tent town for IDPs was set up in Mostyska community. It is located on the sports field of one of the schools. The area is 500 m2. The project was implemented together with the Swiss organization Remar S.O.S.

Currently, 14 people live there. In general, the temporary camp for internally displaced persons is designed for 100 tents. The tent town has sleeping places, a shower, a toilet, and a laundry room. There are also plans to open a children’s playground.

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In Chernihiv oblast, volunteers of the “Iskra Dobra” (a spark of kindness) charity fund are helping to restore the homes of local residents destroyed due to the war. Since April, they have participated in the repair of more than 300 houses. Currently, there are 700 more buildings in the queue. In addition, since the end of February, volunteers have evacuated 2,500 people. They also provide food to those in need. Currently, the charity fund workers distribute about 30,000 food kits every week.

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