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On October 20-21, the International Forum “United for Justice. United for the Environment” will be held in Kyiv. At the event, Ukrainian and international statesmen, government officials, leading experts and representatives of NGOs will discuss the consequences of the war for the Ukrainian environment. The participants will also work out mechanisms to hold the russian federation accountable for the damage it caused, in particular, with regards to the clause 8 of the Peace Formula – stopping the ecocide and paying reparations to Ukraine for the devastated environment.

The topics of discussion at the forum will also include: the impact of russian ecocide in Ukraine on the whole world; how the environmental damage caused by the russian’s war in Ukraine is estimated; how the war affects the climate crisis in the world, in particular the Southern countries of the world.

One of the Forum’s key results will be the project of the environmental treaty, which will create conditions for sustained protection of the environment and the cessation of ecocide.

A briefing by Ukrainian and foreign guests of the conference is planned for the first day of the Forum.

Accreditation for media is required. Please confirm your participation by 6:00 PM on October 17.

• ecology
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

28-year-old photographer Vitalii Yurasov has been documenting the war for almost one and a half years. He filmed battles, prisoner exchanges and secret operations of special forces. Vitalii doesn’t just visit the military, he lives together with the heroes he films at the frontline: he sleeps where they sleep and helps with whatever is necessary.

On October 15, Yurasov’s first photo exhibition “War Face Project” will open in the capital. He will present more than 50 works, in particular, those signed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Valerii Zaluzhnyi and Kyrylo Budanov.

Journalists are welcome to visit the opening of the exhibition and talk with Vitalii Yurasov in the capital.

• culture
• military
• Kyiv

Liudmyla Tabolina is a Kharkiv resident and teacher of Ukrainian language and literature. In 2022, when the full-scale invasion began, the teacher walked 11 kilometers every day, going through checkpoints and under fire, to get to school. Here she set up a shelter for residents of neighboring houses and a humanitarian headquarters. In early March, Liudmyla also started a canteen for local residents. There were many mothers with children in the shelter.

Liudmyla hid class journals, seals, documents, and personal files of children and staff so that the occupiers would not get hold of them in case the school was seized. It was only in September 2022 that the teacher decided to leave Kharkiv and move to the capital. Today, Liudmyla continues to teach, but in a Kyiv lyceum.

For reference: In September, Liudmyla Tabolina was put on the list of the 50 best teachers in the world according to the Global Teacher Prize 2023.

• casualties
• women
• Kyiv

Psychologists from the Voices of Children Foundation will visit the de-occupied Katiuzhanka in Kyiv Oblast on World Mental Health Day observed on October 10. The specialists will conduct group psychosocial sessions with children and their parents.

The foundation’s Kyiv office will also hold psychological sessions for families with children affected by the war.

For reference: The Children’s Voices Charitable Foundation provides psychological and psychosocial assistance to war-torn children.

• children
• psychological support
• Kyiv

On October 8, Kyiv will host a concert, a photo exhibition, a frontline float, and panel discussions that will address the topic of rebuilding Ukrainian cities after the de-occupation. The event is Ukraïner’s Brave Cities video project next up and aims to raise UAH 10,000,000 to support the Come Back Alive Foundation.

Last year, the Ukraїner team presented the Brave Cities research project. It’s a series of videos telling the story of the struggle of the temporarily occupied cities whose residents are heroically resisting. The videos were created by the Ukraїner team in cooperation with local historians, historians, civic activists, and athletes i.e. those who know and feel these localities best. Ukrainian musicians also joined the project and wrote songs about some of these cities. These songs will be performed at the charity concert. Palindrome, Druha Rika, Kryhitka, OTOY, Lilu 45, Sasha Chemerov, and others are among the participants.

Prior accreditation is required for the media representatives. 

• culture
• Kyiv

On October 8 Kyiv will hold a memorial evening for Canadian volunteer Anthony ‘Tonko’ Ihnat and Spanish volunteer and director of Road2Relief Emma Igual, who were killed in Donetsk Oblast. In September, along with other foreign volunteers, assisted by civilians they were traveling from Chasiv Yar to Ivanivske village. The car was hit by a Russian shell.

The memorial evening is held by Brave to Rebuild project volunteers together with the Road2Relief team.

For reference: Canadian Anthony sold his truck in 2022 and came to Ukraine to help people. He worked at clean-ups, carried bags for people at the Polish border, delivered humanitarian aid, evacuated people, and repaired schools.

• dead
• volunteers
• Kyiv

On October 6, Italian journalist Kevin Carboni will complete a three-week trek to Kyiv: the man set out on a 500-kilometer journey from the Polish border to the Ukrainian capital to raise €1 million to help Ukraine. Collected funds will be donated to the Voices of Children Foundation, to provide free psychological assistance to war-torn children, and the Energy Act For Ukraine Foundation, to install solar generators in schools and hospitals. The man also draws attention to the war in Ukraine with his hike. You can track his travel on the Walk to Kyiv initiative’s Instagram page.

Media representatives are welcome to meet Kevin in Kyiv city center, where he will complete his trip. Additionally, he plans to visit the Voices of Children office in Kyiv, where psychosocial and leisure activities for children are held.

For reference: in 2018, Kevin came to Ukraine taking an Erasmus exchange program to study at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. His friends from Kyiv helped him arrange the Walk to Kyiv initiative.

• Kyiv

Joint Forces Operation veteran Andrii Nesmachnyi came up with the idea to set up a workshop where servicemen on leave or after getting injured could work few years ago. The BatArt workshop ran successfully in the Kyiv region, producing craft glassware and donating the proceeds to the needs of wounded combatants in eastern Ukraine until the Russians destroyed the workshop, after the start of the full-scale invasion. After it happened its founder Andrii took up arms again and rose in defence of Ukraine.

Recently, a serviceman renewed production. In between the military personnel rotations, he and his fellow soldiers work on craft glasses, shot glasses, knives, and various souvenirs. Bullet casings are used, among other things, for manufacturing. The money earned in the workshop is directed at providing units with drones, night vision devices, and vehicle repairs.

• military
• Kyiv

On October 9, Kyiv will host a presentation of a unique app, in which sport is used to rehabilitate veterans and soldiers who have received injuries and wounds in active service.

The presentation will be interactive: the visitors will be able to compete with veterans and strongmen in rowing. (You need to take sportswear with you). The presentation will include a demonstration and a press briefing.

Accreditation is required and open until 8:00 PM on October 8.

For reference: The public organization “Victory of the Invincible” and the Strongman Federation of Ukraine, led by Serhii Koniushok, Oleksandr Lashyn and Vasyl Virastyuk, present TRENVET – a fitness app that offers veterans and military personnel the opportunity to find a trainer and undergo sports rehabilitation for free. It allows defenders to quickly find professionals using filters and geolocation.

• military
• Kyiv

On October 5, the American artist Colette Miller will create a mural on Arsenalna Square in the capital, which will be followed by an official unveiling.

She came to Ukraine to create a street art installation that will become part of the Global Angel Wings Project.

Her “wings” are already adorning the streets of Kenya, London’s Heathrow International Airport, a refugee camp and an exquisite wall of a modern estate in France.

Prior accreditation for the media is required.

For reference: The American artist also created the mural “Angel Wings” on Sicheslavska Embankment in Dnipro.

• culture
• women
• Kyiv