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The mission of the Ucare.me project is to restore the mental health of Ukrainians. People can get free help from qualified specialists online via the project’s website. Since the project started working, its specialists have already helped about 1,000 Ukrainians. More than 80% of those who use services of Ucare.me are women, a quarter are internally displaced persons.

• psychological support
• volunteers
• Kyiv

How much land is littered with remnants of destroyed ammunition, how many oil products were burned during the shelling, and even how many forests were burned by missiles and shells? The answers to these and other questions can be found in the latest report of the State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine. The specialists of this institution now continue to calculate environmental losses resulting from russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Journalists can talk to representatives of the State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine and, among other things, find out what methods they use for calculations and the amount of damage. And see how the experts work, if applicable.

For reference: Previously, Ruslan Strilets, the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, stated that the damage to the Ukrainian environment from russian federation’s armed aggression already amounts to more than USD 46 billion. Ukraine will demand compensation for these losses by russia.

• ecology
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

The “Countrywomen” Non-Profit Organization launched the project entitled “Psychological Support for Women in War”, within the framework of which it brought together a team of qualified psychologists to provide defenders at the front line with individual consultations.

Consultations take place online from any trench or position. Each military who applies for help is given 8–10 sessions with a psychologist. In order to contact a specialist, the defender only needs to write a message in Telegram and be sure that her mental health is in safe hands.

For reference: Since March 2022, “Countrywomen” Non-Profit Organization has been supporting the female defenders at the front line with the necessary ammunition, uniforms, shoes and boxes with “women’s humanitarian aid”.

• military
• psychological support
• volunteers
• women
• Kyiv

“Still Strong” is a charitable project that teams up the medical community to provide free assistance to Ukrainian defenders with head and neck injuries, as well as to civilians. The initiative brought together the specialists in various domains and clinics where the patients will be operated at no charge. (It refers to both public and private medical institutions). As for now, more than 50 people have applied for assistance to medics participating in the project.

• doctors
• volunteers
• Ivano-Frankivsk
• Kyiv

The Regional Center for Human Rights is investigating illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to russia. According to their data, at least 260,000 Ukrainian children have already been deported to the russian federation, the real figure may reach 700,000. Most of the illegally displaced children have parents. According to Kateryna Rashevska, a lawyer at the Regional Center for Human Rights, at least 400 Ukrainian children have already ended up in russian families. 

• children
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

On Monday, January 16, a Ukrainian team of beauty industry artists will visit Hostomel, in Kyiv region. Beauty volunteers will provide haircuts, coloring and correction of eyebrows, massages or hygienic manicures for free to all the residents.

And from January 20 to 25, beauty volunteers will be visiting Kharkiv region. They will work in five de-occupied settlements (the residents will be provided with beauty services for free).

For reference: the idea of beauty volunteering belongs to make-up artist Olha Belytska. Together with like-minded people, every week Olha comes to the de-occupied settlements of Kyiv region to help people who survived the horrors of the occupation feel beautiful again.

• casualties
• volunteers
• Kyiv

After the beginning of russia’s full-scale aggression, Ukrainian specialists, with the support of international volunteers, founded the Dattalion project. The Dattalion website has already collected more than 5,500 videos, 26,000 photos and 140 eyewitness’ accounts. Thanks to the largest free and independent photo and video database, as well as the database of verified eyewitness’ accounts, DATTALION is an important source for understanding the realities of the russo-Ukrainian war.

• russian crimes
• volunteers
• women
• Kyiv

The most famous football player of Ukraine, Andriy Shevchenko, has donated UAH 300,000 to Mariupol women’s football team. Now the athletes who were forced to leave their homes will be able to purchase equipment and run their own businesses.

After russia’s full-scale invasion, Mariupol women’s football team was forced to leave their hometown. The girls live and train in Kyiv now. In addition, they themselves earn money to support the team. Even back in Mariupol, football players sold ready-to-cook food: they made dumplings, varenyky, chebureki and baked pancakes. However, the sports women lost their production facility in their hometown, so they needed funds for new equipment. Keep Going project was raising UAH 350,000 for female athletes. Now, thanks to the contribution by Andriy Shevchenko, this amount has even been exceeded with over UAH 400,000 collected for the girls.

• occupation
• women
• Kyiv
• Mariupol

Since April, Maks Nesterov (together with his fellow hair stylists) has been cutting hair and shaving military men for free, particularly those staying in a hospital. They have to work with soldiers who are in a difficult condition (even with those who are in intensive care). He admits that in his 24 years of work, he has never encountered such an experience. In October, the man styled the hair of Ukrainian female border guards who had been released from russian captivity.

In addition, the hair stylists joined one of the initiatives where participants collect and sell hair to help the military. Thanks to this, it was already possible to purchase equipment worth more than UAH 0.5 million.

• volunteers
• Kyiv

Аndrii Nebytov, Head of the Main Directorate of Kyiv region police, has become a star on Ukrainian YouTube who hit hundreds of thousands of views. Since russia’s full-scale invasion, the chief police officer of Kyiv region has been posting videos on his channel showing the equipment with which the russians tried to take over Ukrainian cities. In particular, he reviews the first-aid kits of enemy soldiers, their topographical maps and other trophies.

• booty
• Kyiv