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On August 28, savED charity fund’s photo exhibition will be opened in Kyiv. The exhibition is dedicated to the stories of schools and children affected by the full-scale war.

The opening of the photo exhibition will be attended by students of Chernihiv, Mykhailo-Kotsyubynske (Chernihiv region), Borodyanka and Katyuzhanka (Kyiv region) schools, who, despite the horrors of war, shelling and occupation, have not lost their thirst for learning and are actively rebuilding their schools and communities. Their stories will be heard during the opening of the exhibition.

The photo exhibition will be a part of a campaign to raise funds for the construction of a temporary school in the village of Chervona Dolyna, Mykolaiv region. This, in turn, is part of the fund’s fundraising campaign #to_school_again, within which the fund is collecting money for the shelter and to restore facilities of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions.

For reference: As of August 2023, every tenth school in Ukraine has been destroyed by russia. And over 1,500 schools are significantly damaged or destroyed and cannot be repaired.

savED is a charity fund that restores access to education where it was taken away by war.

• children
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

On August 27, a peaceful rally will be held in Kyiv at the initiative of the families of Mariupol border guards held in captivity.

Journalists will have an opportunity to talk in more detail with relatives of captured border guards.

• prisoners
• Kyiv

On August 25, Media Center Ukraine — Ukrinform will host a networking event for journalists and fixers.

Participants:

– Alina Bondarchuk, Head of the Information Collection and Monitoring Department of the Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine;

– Colonel Oleksandr Melnichenko, representative of the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of the State’s Interests in the Field of Information Security of the Security Service of Ukraine;

– Artem Shevchuk, Head of the Expert Group at the Strategic Communications Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine;

Topics of focus:

– The importance of communication with the public sector and why it is necessary to move away from what exists in the information space of Ukraine? How to safely work with the news coming from the russian federation?

– How did the level of media literacy of Ukrainians and immunity to russian fakes increase?

– Why are russian fake news on sensitive topics the most effective and how to work with sensitive topics correctly?

– How to choose a topic for the news so as not to become a tool in the hands of the enemy and stay on subject?

– Basic rules for working with information and responsibility for spreading information from the russian information space to the Ukrainian one.

Pre-registration is required. Registered visitors will be able to join the lecture online: they will be sent a link.

• russian crimes
• Kyiv

An exhibition of Russian military equipment destroyed during the war will be held in Kyiv. It is currently being assembled on Khreshchatyk. The exhibits include damaged Russian tanks, armored personnel carriers, and destroyed missiles. In total, there are plans to display more than 50 pieces. 

Journalists can learn more about the exhibits from a representative of the National Military History Museum of Ukraine.

• occupation
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

On August 22, Kyiv will host two panel discussions and a special event by the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People within the framework of the Third Summit of the International Crimea Platform. The goal is to give a background for the discussions that will take place at the Third Summit of the International Crimea Platform: to discuss ways to liberate temporarily occupied Crimea and part of the waters of the Black and Azov Seas; to investigate the opportunities available to Ukraine for the liberation of certain regions; to assess the most likely problems and risks on the way to establishing sustainable and reliable peace; to determine the range of problems on the way to the reintegration of Crimea and to develop a vision for overcoming them.

Participants: representatives of the Expert Network of the Crimea Platform, state authorities of Ukraine, international think tanks and NGOs, representatives of the International Crimea Platform countries officials, and representatives of the academic community.

Some of the participants include:

• Kajsa Ollongren, Minister of Defense of the Netherlands (TBC)
• Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
• Andriy Kostin, Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

• occupation
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

On August 20, Kyiv will host the presentation of the “Brave Cyclers” project and the official opening of the bicycle workshop. During the presentation, volunteers, including foreigners, will hold a bicycle repair master class for everyone.

In general, in this workshop volunteers repair bicycles provided by benefactors from Amsterdam. Later, these bikes will be sent to people in the de-occupied territories.

For reference: the “Brave Cyclists” initiative is implemented by volunteers of the “Brave to Rebuild” project.

• casualties
• volunteers
• Kyiv

The Strongman Federation of Ukraine, together with the Kyiv City Council Department of Youth and Sports, continues to implement a program for veterans to get back on track in life through sports rehabilitation. On August 19, Kyiv will host a competition for military personnel and veterans.

Over 200 participants from all over Ukraine will compete in strongman, athletics, rowing, archery, bench press, and other disciplines.

Defenders with amputations and injuries of arms and legs, internal organs, wheelchair users, etc., will also join the competition.

• military
• Kyiv

Bohdan is 27 and was born in Donetsk. He studied at the Donetsk National Medical University, but in 2014 he had to transfer to Kyiv and continue his education.

Before the full-scale war, he worked as a cardiologist in private medical centers. After February 24, 2022, he joined the FRIDA Ukraine Ukrainian-Israeli medical volunteer mission. He provided medical assistance for over 50 medical missions. He treated people in the de-occupied and frontline territories. He had to deal with his work accompanied by the sounds of explosions and doing his job in shelters. During this time, the doctor conducted lifesaving missions to Ukrainians in Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kherson, Sumy, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, and Dnipro regions.

Recently, Bohdan became the head of a project launched by FRIDA Ukraine in the Kharkiv region together with Polska Misja Medyczna: mobile clinics operate in the region. The team of doctors will have patient appointments in different parts of the de-occupied Kharkiv region for six months.

Journalists are also welcome to cover how mobile clinics operate in the Kharkiv region.

• casualties
• doctors
• Kharkiv
• Kyiv

On August 16, Nine days will have passed since Andrii Babinskyi died in a battle against the russians. The organizers of the rally in memory of the fallen combat medic and the founder of the Vyshyvanka Megamarch call on everyone to wear embroidered shirts to work, study or just for a walk around the city.

On the same day, a commemorative event will be held in Kyiv, to which people are also invited to come wearing vyshyvankas:

6:30 PM – Gathering near the monument to Yaroslav the Wise (Zoloti Vorota metro station)

7:30 PM – The Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen for Ukraine (Triohsviatytelska St.).

After the performance by several musicians, the participants will go to the Wall of Remembrance, where they will honor Andrii Babinskyi, Maksym Nepyjpyvo and all fallen heroes in the russo-Ukrainian war with a moment of silence and performance of the National Anthem of Ukraine.

For reference: On August 8, 2023, Andrii Babinskyi, the creator of the Vyshyvanka Megamarch, a public figure, a biochemist by profession, a senior soldier and a combat medic of the 80th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade, died in a battle with the russian invaders.

While still a student, in the fall of 2008, Andrii started the Vyshyvanka Megamarch – an event in the capital that eventually became an international movement. Participants of the Megamarch traditionally gather twice a year in vyshyvankas and march through the streets of cities.

• dead
• doctors
• military
• Kyiv

In the National Reserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra,” the second round of events of the military rehabilitation program is underway. Military chaplains, who work directly on the front lines, have already arrived for this purpose. After them, military personnel and former PoWs in need of rehabilitation will also come to the Lavra. Several stages of “cultural rehabilitation” await them. In particular, the study of the history of Ukraine and the history of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, icon painting and art therapy. The soldiers will go to the caves of the monastery and take part in archaeological excavations on the territory of the Lavra.

• culture
• military
• Kyiv