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On July 13, at 1:00 PM, the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War will host a briefing on the large-scale project of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine – the Soviet-era coat of arms removed and replaced with the Ukrainian trident on Motherland’s shield being implemented.

The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, along with its partners, will present information about the stages, funding, challenges, decisions, and other details of the historical project to replace the USSR coat of arms with the trident on the shield of the Motherland Monument. Oleksandr Tkachenko, Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine; Yurii Savchuk, Director of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the World War II; Oleksii Pergamenshchyk, sculptor of the project;
Vasyl Borodai, a descendant of one of the authors of the sculpture of Motherland Monument.

Event accreditation is required.

For reference: 85% of Ukrainians voted to replace the USSR coat of arms with a trident on the shield of the Motherland monument in the Diia application polled last year.

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• Kyiv

Kyiv will host an exhibition of art objects called “Weapon Transformation” during the “Stadium of Culture” charity festival on July 8-9

The Weapon Transformation project is an initiative that has involved more than 80 artists from all over Ukraine. Its goal is to transform spent weapons, including tubes and shell casings, into art objects. One of the project’s main priorities is to draw attention to the war in Ukraine and raise funds to support the army and rebuild the country. Over the six months since the project started, the sale of art objects has already raised more than 400 thousand UAH for the army’s needs. 

Journalists will have the opportunity to talk to the artists.

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• Kyiv

Rustem Skybin is a Crimean Tatar artist who has established his own style of ceramics called “Quru Isar”, which means “dry barrier” in the Crimean Tatar language. Rustem was forced to leave his native Crimea in 2014 due to the Russian invasion. After moving to the capital, he found himself living in his car as he did not have his own home. Later, when life started improving, he opened a workshop. But in 2022, Russia tried to take everything away from him again, this time in Kyiv. The man volunteered and evacuated those who could not leave the city.  Then he began to counteract information warfare waged against Ukraine by organizing information resistance. He created a series of posters about cities that were under Russian occupation and a “museum of trophies,” i.e., things left behind after the Russians retreated. He opened the museum in a symbolic place – a toilet. Now the “museum” displays more than 50 exhibits, which are given to the artist by his friends from the front.

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Roman Pelekh, a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, makes an old Ukrainian liqueur whose recipe was lost at the beginning of the last century. Before the full-scale invasion, Roman found 90 liters of alcohol called kontabas in an old abandoned hut in Zakarpattia and a notebook with a recipe. The drink’s main ingredient is blackcurrant buds, which are quite tricky to acquire. But Roman managed to resume production of the drink and even improved the recipe. After being wounded at the front and returning to civilian life, the man set up an actual kontabas production in Lviv.

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• military

The damaged Russian military equipment exhibit on Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv. The enemy UAVs, burned BM-21 ‘Grad’ rockets, broken tanks, trucks, and infantry fighting vehicles are among the pieces. The enemy drones and the remains of missiles regularly targeting Ukrainian cities are also on display. The Military History Museum of Ukraine prepared the exhibition. It will be open until 6:00 pm on June 18.

For reference: The Military History Museum of Ukraine collects artifacts of the Russian-Ukrainian war. There is currently an exhibition dedicated to the Russian cruiser Moskva’s destruction, featuring the remains of a Neptune anti-ship missile that hit the flagship and a life preserver from the ship.

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• russian crimes
• Kyiv

Ukrainian photographer Marta Syrko founded the photo project “Sculpted” last December. The subjects of her photos are Ukrainian defenders who suffered as a result of the russian federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. (These are soldiers who received injuries, burns or whose limbs were amputated.) Ten defenders have already participated in the photo project. Civilians who have suffered as a result of the war can also take part in the project.

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• Lviv

Media Center Ukraine – Ukrinform to host an event dedicated “Culture vs. War” project about Ukrainian artists at war and the first documentary film about the ANTYTILA band release

Speakers:

• Iryna Borovets, Director General for Public Diplomacy and Communications Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
•  Marco Ferraro, program manager at the EU Delegation to Ukraine
•  Andrii Rizol, project producer
•  Alina Krasnianska, executive producer of the series of documentaries

•  Taras Topolia, the “Antytila” band leader
•  Serhii Vusyk, the “Antytila” band manager and musician
•  Dmytro Zholud, the “Antytila” band guitarist

In-person attendance of all participants.

The Culture vs. War project tells the world about the values of Ukrainian culture through the stories of artists who left their everyday lives and creative ambitions to defend the country. A key component of the project is a series of documentaries where Ukrainian musicians, filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other cultural figures are the main protagonists telling about this war through their own stories and memories.

Accreditation is mandatory. 

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• military
• volunteers
• Kyiv

Media Center Ukraine – Ukrinform to host an event dedicated “Culture vs. War” project about Ukrainian artists at war and the first documentary film about the ANTYTILA band release

Speakers:

• Andrii Rizol, project producer
• Marco Ferraro, European Union project Program Manager
• Kadim Tarasov, director of the series of documentaries
• Taras Topolia, the Antytila band leader 
• Alina Krasnianska, the project’s documentaries executive producer
• Serhii Vusyk, the Antytila band manager and musician
• Dmytro Zholud, the Antytila band guitarist

The Culture vs. War project tells the world about the values of Ukrainian culture through the stories of artists who left their everyday lives and creative ambitions to defend the country. A key component of the project is a series of documentaries where Ukrainian musicians, filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other cultural figures are the main protagonists telling about this war through their own stories and memories.

Accreditation is mandatory. 

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• Kyiv

The independent volunteer art collective Spilka started drilling a well in the village of Korolivka, Makariv district, Kyiv Oblasts, on May 30. This village was heavily damaged during the fighting in February-March 2022. The drilling of the well is one of the stages of the project to help the village community: the hospital reconstruction, partially damaged by explosions, was the project’s first phase. Another stage will be constructing a bomb shelter at the Korolivka Lyceum. Currently, students cannot attend the institution having no shelter.

For reference: Spilka is an independent volunteer collective of artists based in New York, Paris and Kyiv. Spilka’s activities are focused on raising funds through artistic, cultural and sporting events in the cities of its main base.

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• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• volunteers
• Kyiv

On May 26, the anthology consisting of six documentaries “Cities and Their Heroes” will premier in Ivankiv, Kyiv region. A hero was chosen in each of the 6 cities – Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Okhtyrka, Bashtanka and Ivankiv – to be featured in the documentary about their city. Hennadiy Popenko is the hero in the documentary about Ivankiv. He was an actor and TV presenter before 2022. Having survived the occupation of Ivankiv with his family, he joined the territorial defense and became an active participant in community life.

The creators of the project will be present at the premiere, as well as the people featured in the film – residents of the village that survived the occupation.

“Cities and Their Heroes” films have already been presented in Bashtanka (Mykolaiv region) and Okhtyrka (Sumy region). After Ivankiv, the project will be screened in Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Kyiv and Lviv.

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• Kyiv