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Victoria managed to rescue 27 dogs and 15 cats during the shelling of Chernihiv. She picked up some animals in the streets and had to extricate others from locked flats. She brought dogs and cats to a steel and metal store she owns. She had to sit out shelling together with the animals in a bomb shelter on the premises. Now, owners are coming back to pick up their pets she rescued.

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• Chernihiv

Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister, was initiated into Cossacks in Chernihiv. For his hairstyle, the British politician was given a genuine Cossack name – Boris Chupryna. The decision to initiate Johnson into Cossacks was made by the Cossack community of Saint Catherine Church. The appropriate diploma will be sent to London. On the occasion of this event, Kyiv artists Darya Dobriakova and Yurii Kutylov painted Boris as Cossack Mamay.

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• Chernihiv

Andrii Sahaidak is an experienced forester and founder of the Polissia Forest Crafts Museum. Before the all-out war, he organized tours of Mizhrichynskyi Regional Landscape Park in Chernihiv Oblast. Now, he resumes the tours of the park’s nature trail to raise money for Ukraine’s Armed Forces and help volunteers recuperate to be able to keep working for victory.

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Oleksandr from Chernihiv has been working as a welder for 22 years. When russians started shelling the city, he decided to stay and help locals instead of leaving the city. The shelling left many people in the city without gas supply, so Oleksandr had to mend damaged pipes, with shells exploding a dozen meters away. He worked for 50 days without taking a day off in this hazardous environment.

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• Chernihiv

About 40 people still live in a bomb shelter on the outskirts of Chernihiv. These people’s homes were destroyed completely or partly. Some of them fear that bombs can start falling again.

Residents of the bomb shelter said they visit their ruined homes during the day to clean up, but return to the basement every night.

By way of background information: According to Chernihiv authorities, 1,500 private homes and 10,000 apartments were destroyed completely, and 37,000 more were damaged in the course of active fighting in the city.

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• russian crimes
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In March, 14-year-old Serhii from the village of Yahidne in Chernihiv Oblast was seriously wounded during the occupation of the village. Without parental permission, the russians brought the boy to a hospital in Belarus. The mother did not know where her son was for several weeks. Later, the family saw a Facebook post where Serhii had been looking for his parents. However, a new problem emerged—the boy could have been declared an orphan and placed in an orphanage in Belarus. In this case, he would not have been able to leave the neighboring country until reaching the age of majority. The Ukrainian officials and concerned ordinary people joined their efforts to bring Serhii back home.

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• children
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Kostiantyn, a staff sergeant of the National Guard of Ukraine, defended his home city of Chernihiv from the first day of the war. On the third day of the foe’s all-out offensive, Kostiantyn, together with his friends, took captive two russian military servicemen from the crew of a wrecked tank; one of them turned out to be a tank battalion executive officer. Later, he protected his subordinates at the cost of his health. A projectile exploded nearby while the soldier moved from one trench to another. Medics literally assembled his leg bone part by part. The hero from Chernihiv has already been serving for 20 years. Now he needs several months to rehabilitate and recuperate.

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• Chernihiv