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Bohdan Logvynenko is currently preparing to go to the Kherson region to help those affected by the flooding caused by the explosion of the Kakhovka HPP by Russian troops. He is also gathering volunteers for the humanitarian mission online.

For reference:  Bohdan Logvynenko is a journalist and, writer, founder of Ukraїner (a socio-cultural multimedia project of Ukrainian studies based on the results of his own expeditions).

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• Kherson

Oksana Pohomii, a volunteer and a Kherson City Council member, waited for the city to be liberated from the Russian invaders throughout the occupation. She also helped those who were going through hard times with her. She even managed to post videos from the occupied city.  Now Oksana Pohomii continues to stay in Kherson, ready to talk to the media about the mood of the city, people’s self-organization, readiness for evacuation, etc.

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• Kherson

Experts are calculating the ecosystem damage caused by Russia blowing up the Kakhovka dam. The Center for Environmental Initiatives Ecoaction (Ecodia) is ready to share contacts of English-speaking experts who can comment on these issues.

• ecology
• russian crimes
• Kherson
• Kyiv

Kherson authorities plan to install 60 mobile shelters. As of now, about 30 of them have already been put up in the city. In general, the authorities also want to install 150 mobile shelters in the de-occupied parts of Kherson region. They plan to put them up, first of all, near schools that do not have bomb shelters. The region also continues to repair shelters that have been abandoned and out of use.

• russian crimes
• Kherson

FRIDA Ukraine, a mission of Ukrainian-Israeli medical volunteers, continues to provide assistance to the civilian population affected by hostilities.

A total of 3 missions will take place on May 13-14. Two of them will take place in the de-occupied and front-line parts of Kharkiv and Kherson regions. A team of 20 doctors will provide quality medical care in regional communities for two days.

Also, another team of volunteer doctors will take outpatient appointments at the “Enjoying Life: Care” support center for displaced persons in Kyiv as part of the marathon organized jointly with “Enjoying Life” charitable foundation. It is the first time, FRIDA doctors will take appointments with temporarily displaced persons at such a scale.

Journalists are invited to accompany the team of medical volunteers during planned missions in Kharkiv or Kherson regions, or join the mission in Kyiv. There is also an opportunity to cover the activities of FRIDA Ukraine and conduct interviews with the team without traveling to hot spots.

Accreditation required.

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• volunteers
• Kharkiv
• Kherson
• Kyiv

37-year-old Iryna Horobtsova worked for a Ukrainian IT company and became known for her social media posts about life under occupation. Iryna posted photos with Ukrainian symbols and called her apartment her “home resistance headquarters.” On May 13, 2022, the Russians abducted her from her home and kept her in a pre-trial detention center in Simferopol. No one is allowed to visit Iryna, and she is completely isolated from the outside world. The activist’s parents are ready to talk to the media to spread her story and get their daughter released as soon as possible.

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• russian crimes
• Kherson

Doctors of the Hospitallers Medical Battalion will teach civilians how to provide medical aid to the injured. The training is expected to start next week in Kherson.

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• Kherson

After the liberation of Kherson, some of the actors of Mykola Kulish Music and Drama Theater returned to their hometown. Despite the enemy shelling, the actors are currently working in the art hub of a shelter. Recently, the thespians presented the play called “A Kitten to Remember the Darkness”. The team is also working on rebuilding the theater.

For reference: In November, Kherson was taken back under Ukraine’s control. Back in May, the occupation authorities of Kherson appointed a man who had previously worked as a security guard to manage Mykola Kulish Music and Drama Theater. In July, the occupiers set up an artillery ammunition depot in the premises of the theater.

• culture
• Kherson

The goal of the volunteer project “Brave to Rebuild” is to help residents of the de-occupied territories of Ukraine to restore housing and social institutions damaged as a result of the russian federation’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine. Since the beginning of May 2022, over 2,000 volunteers from Ukraine, Europe, the U.S., Canada and Australia have been involved in the project. Among other things, volunteers helped to clear debris, repair roofs and windows in 228 detached houses and 153 apartments in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kherson regions. 

Upcoming events:

February 21-22, 2023 (Kyiv) — setting up “Volunteer Indomitability” hub in the premises of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. This indomitability center will help volunteers and young activists, as well as provide electricity to enable work during power and communication outages. In fact, it will be a public co-working space, arranged by the activists themselves.

February 25-26 (Irpin, Bucha and surrounding villages). Clearing debris, small repairs in detached houses.

• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• volunteers
• Kharkiv
• Kherson
• Kyiv

For the second time, “volunteer paratroopers” are being trained in Odesa to go to Kherson. Those who volunteered will pack and unload the humanitarian aid, as well as deliver it to the addresses, explains the coordination headquarters for humanitarian aid in Odesa region. Some of the volunteers will work in villages near the city. One of the tasks they will face is clearing the rubble. Therefore, there is a need for drivers of special vehicles.Departure to Kherson is planned for the middle of February, and the volunteer work will last for at least two months.

For reference: 11 people from Kyiv, Odesa, the UK and the U.S. worked in Kherson as part of the first such mission, which lasted 10 days. 

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• Odesa