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Veteran paramedic Yuliia “Kuba” has been rescuing the wounded in the hottest spots of the front since 2014. After retiring from the service in 2019, she started working in fashion design and participated in Ukrainian Fashion Week. After the start of russia’s full-scale invasion, the veteran returned into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to save lives. While still being at the front, the woman joined the creation of a clothing brand called Cubitus Dei, which is produced in the VETERANKA workshop. Recently, a charity collection of this brand – “Fire of Liberty” – was presented in France. Anyone can buy the first accessories from the collection – “Kolos” brooches. The money from the sale will go to the rehabilitation of wounded servicewomen, who are cared for by the Veteranka foundation.

Volunteers of the VETERANKA shop, led by designer of famous Ukrainian brands Hanna Suvorkina and Ukrainian designer Stanislav Bitus, also worked on the creation of the “Fire of Liberty” charity collection. During the full-scale invasion, Stanislav changed his line of work and began producing women’s military uniforms instead of fashionable dresses, became Head of “VETERANKA” workshop, and after the presentation of the collection, joined the ranks of the National Guard of Ukraine.

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Every third Friday of the month, 12 Kyiv subway stations host first aid training sessions. The training is conducted by the Center for Emergency Medical Care and Disaster Medicine experienced specialists and instructors. Anyone can join the training available free of charge. Practices on how to conduct an initial assessment of the victim’s condition, how to act in case of massive bleeding, airway obstruction, thermal burns, etc are taught by doctors.. The training was launched last year by the Ministry of Health and the Kyiv Metro. At least 10,000 passengers have already undergone 11 trainings, thanks to which at least 10,000 passengers have acquired first aid skills. 

Important: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine event accreditation for the foreign media is required. 

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Before the full-scale Russian invasion, the medic with the call sign Shining got a degree in history and archaeology and planned to enter the field. With the outbreak of the great war, Shining decided that the history teacher’s classroom could wait, but evacuating the wounded from the front line was urgent business. So she volunteered to join the Hospitallers medical battalion. She rescued the injured military personnel in the hottest spots of the frontline, and now she is working in one of the stabilization centers. This is a place to stabilize wounded soldiers’ health conditions as quickly as possible, and everything is done to help them get to a hospital. The girl often had to perform resuscitation in extreme conditions, bringing defenders back to life. But sometimes doctors are powerless. In such cases, Shining is afraid to see the face of a soldier whose life they failed to save on the news.

The girl is not disclosing her real name for security reasons.

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Joe is 61 years old. Twenty years ago, he served at New York City Police Department and later trained police paramedics. But Joe has been in Ukraine for almost a year now: he joined the Ukrainian-Israeli medical volunteer mission FRIDA.  As a paramedic (sometimes as an ECG technician), he travels with specialists to the de-occupied and frontline regions to help people. For example, the man had to help patients in bomb shelters. And also in settlements where no doctors were left due to the full-scale invasion of Russia.

For reference: FRIDA Ukraine, the Ukrainian-Israeli medical volunteer charitable mission, has been helping civilians since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In particular, they counsel people, operate, evacuate and distribute medicines. Volunteer doctors (of various medical specialties) travel to the regions (for example, Kharkiv, Kherson, or Donetsk) to help local residents with health issues. 

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Another training for future volunteer medics will take place on July 16, Sunday in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The Hospitallers medical volunteer battalion organizes the courses regularly. In total, the training lasts for ten days, and future paramedics can attend classes both near Dnipro and in Kyiv.

Journalists can cover the training process.

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FRIDA Ukraine, together with Polska Misja Medyczna, is launching a new project in the Kharkiv Oblast: mobile clinics will operate in the region. A team of doctors and healthcare workers will have patient appointments in different parts of the de-occupied Kharkiv region for 6 months.

The doctors have already undergone a series of training sessions to be qualified to examine local residents in any condition. In particular, a course was held by The HALO Trust, during which doctors were taught the rules of safe behavior in war conditions and told about the risks of handling explosive devices.

For reference: FRIDA Ukraine is a Ukrainian-Israeli mission of medical volunteers aimed at helping the civilian population.

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On the first day of the full-scale war, Andrii went to the army recruiting office and enlisted in the army to defend the country. At the time, he was 18 years old. In October last year, an enemy mine injured his leg. He was talking on the phone with his mother, who heard the explosion and how her son was applying a tourniquet to his leg. Andrii was admitted to the Superhumans Center in Lviv. This year in June, a few days after his discharge, Andrii rode 100 km on a bicycle with a prosthetic left leg.

Last year, the man proposed to his beloved. He made an engagement ring out of a shell casing. The couple paints paintings together and puts them up for charity auction, and donates the proceeds to the needs of the military.

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A mentoring program has been launched at NEZLAMNI National Rehabilitation Center with the goal to help patients adapt to trauma and return to living independently outside of a medical facility. This model of social support is called “peer-to-peer.” According to it, former patients, who themselves have gone through a difficult path to recovery and rehabilitation, share their experience and help current patients of the Center to cope with new circumstances.

Mentors are already counseling men and women affected by the war.

Currently, there are three mentors working in the NEZLAMNI team.

Victoriia. A Lviv resident. She was hit by a bus at the crosswalk. The girl lost her leg. In the NEZLAMNI Center, Victoria underwent rehabilitation and received a prosthesis.

Mykhailo. Paratrooper He lost his left arm and right leg when he was running to save his brothers in arms during the battles for Izyum. He got a bionic prosthetic hand at the NEZLAMNI Center.

Pavlo. Athlete. He has been in a wheelchair since the age of 12. He was injured as a result of falling from a tree. Despite this, he continued to do sports and became the champion of Ukraine and Europe in powerlifting. 

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Before the full-scale Russian invasion, Rina Reznik was a high school biology teacher interested in treating brain injuries. Later, she joined the Holosiivskyi Territorial Defense Forces and, in a few weeks, headed to the Donetsk region. Today, Rina is a medic with the Hospitallers Medical Battalion, and she is in charge of blood transfusions at the front and ensuring proper conditions for medical procedures.

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The Military Innovation Rehabilitation Center “BASE 4.5.0” has worked with combatants and their families for over six years. This time they are organizing water therapy. The military will be given surfing and wakeboarding lessons. In addition to physical exercises, the soldiers will have a theoretical part with military psychologists. The Center says such classes help the military return to civilian life.

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