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For several months, a journalist from Kherson worked for the Ukrainian media under the conditions of occupation: she filmed anti-russian rallies on her smartphone and went live while hiding her face. After spending more than six months in the occupation, the woman decided to leave for Ukraine-controlled territory, but the russians kept her at the checkpoint for almost a month, so she had to live with strangers or even in the premises of a church. Now the journalist works for a Ukrainian TV channel and plans to return home soon.

• occupation
• Kherson

Mykola Kulish Music and Drama Theater from the temporarily occupied Kherson announced a tour of Ukraine with a solo performance “The Cat On the Memory of Darkness.” This is a story about 8 years of life in war-settings in Donbas, as well as the reality in which Ukrainians from Kherson, Zaporizhia, Luhansk regions and a part of Kharkiv region found themselves. The first performance will take place on October 20 in Kropyvnytskyi, followed by Mykolaiv and Odesa. In total, performances in 7 cities of Ukraine are planned.

For information: in May, the occupation authorities of Kherson appointed a man who had previously worked there as a security guard to lead the Mykola Kulish Music and Drama Theater. And in July, invaders set up a warehouse of artillery ammunition in the theater.

• culture
• occupation
• Kherson

Stefan Vorontsov returned to Ukraine on the eve of the all-out invasion. He studies in Poland but decided to visit his parents. The war caught him in Nova Kakhovka; Stefan’s life has been closely connected to his native city since that time. Within 40 days under the occupation, he managed to set up a volunteering headquarters and establish HUMANITY, an NGO that supplied food and medicines to residents of Nova Kakhovka. The organization also evacuated city residents from the occupation. Stefan decided to leave Kherson Oblast when a local resident told russians about his activities.

• occupation
• volunteers
• Kherson