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Almost USD 100 billion is the amount of direct losses as the result of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. These numbers were calculated at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE). As part of “russia will pay” project, all financial losses of Ukraine since February 24 are recorded there. According to the KSE, residential buildings account for over a third of the damages. Some can still be restored, while some will have to be rebuilt from scratch. Business losses from the war have also been calculated. The damages include destroyed factories, and burned down warehouses as well as closed coffee shops, pharmacies, and stores.

• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

18-year-old Ilona fled to Kyiv from the occupation in Kherson and has been working in the capital for 2 months. She is forced to earn money not only for herself, because her 85-year-old grandmother, who was deprived of her pension by the occupiers, remained in Kherson. So, the girl has to find ways to transfer money and medicine to her elderly family member.

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• occupation
• Kyiv

Olha owns a cafe in downtown Kyiv. Her coffee place tries to operate sustainably – they sell environment-friendly products, decorate the location with flowers in pots that one can buy, and refrain from using disposable cups –one can even buy a coffee to go in a genuine, reusable cup. After the start of the full-scale war, Olha equipped a bomb shelter in the building where her cafe is located and established a humanitarian hub.

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• Kyiv

On July 17, Syrup hip-hop band and Poryad charity will host an untypical charity event at Lisovyi Prychal (Closer) club in Kyiv. They plan to raise funds for two pick-up trucks for Ukraine’s Armed Forces. PVNCH band, XXV Frame rappers, Oi FUSK, and Wavy Dem will play live. There will also be DJ sets, a ping-pong tournament, a tattoo marathon, and a Ukrainian animation film showing.

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• Kyiv

Journalists have the opportunity to visit a farm with an area of ​​more than 1,000 hectares, which was under russian occupation. This is a good opportunity to see with your own eyes warehouses and silos, agricultural machinery and fields of wheat, corn and sunflowers that were burnt down as a result of shelling by the occupiers.  The speakers will include:

Oleksandr Fischun, owner and director of Iveria Agro farm.

Hanna Hopko, Co-founder of the International Center for Ukrainian Victory.

Ivan Miroshnichenko, Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations, Vice President of the Ukrainian Grain Association, former adviser to the Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine

Ihor Melnyk, owner of “Agrogeophysica” subsidiary company, the territory of which is partly under occupation.

The farm visit will take place on Thursday, July 14 at 11:00 AM. Media accreditation form must be filled out to take part it the visit — https://bit.ly/3axlsef. After receiving your application, the exact address of the location will be sent to you.

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• occupation
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

The UAnimals team evacuated five lionesses and one lion from a zoo in Donetsk region. Its territory is constantly shelled by the enemy, so it was extremely dangerous for the animals to stay there. The predators were taken to a shelter for wild animals in Kyiv region. In addition, the animals needed treatment, so people donated UAH 30,000 for the rehabilitation of the lions.

The UAnimals team continues to evacuate animals from various places in Ukraine that are suffering from hostilities.

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• Kyiv

RebuildUA project’s team is gathering information about destruction and damage to develop a geoinformation portal about the consequences of the war. Using drones and analytics, the volunteers digitize and appraise damage caused by the invaders. So far, the project has been working in Kyiv Oblast but is planning to expand to other oblasts. The volunteers have already digitized 50 settlements and 15,000 destroyed objects.

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• russian crimes
• Kyiv

Iryna Nykorak, a Kyiv City Council member, launches the military uniform production for women. She called her project Arm Women Now. The project’s goal is to supply military uniforms to every woman in the Ukrainian Army.  According to the Councilor, the first uniform batch is being produced now. The next week it will be delivered to the Armed Forces of Ukraine to enable women fighters to test the uniform in combat.  According to Nykorak, over 50,000 women serve in Ukraine’s Armed Forces, including 3,500 as field officers.

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• women
• Kyiv

Veronika and Valeriy Petrychkovych are taking care of 47 cats and 25 dogs. They turned their house in the village of Horenka in Kyiv region into a real shelter for abandoned animals: the second floor is used to keep cats, and the yard was equipped for dogs. Together with volunteer veterinarians, the garage was turned into a field hospital where four-legged animals are sterilized, vaccinated and treated. At first, Veronika rescued animals only in Kyiv region. But when the russians were repelled from the region, many owners returned for their pets. So now the couple’s house is home to four-legged friends from other regions of Ukraine that suffered from the russian aggression.

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• Kyiv

A dog beaten and mined by occupiers was found near Makarov in Kyiv Oblast. The pet needs prolonged rehabilitation, according to Zoopatrol.UA NGO. They say the animal was found lying in a pit with waste. People wanted to pull the dog out but noticed that it was mined. Being unable to walk saved the dog its life. It is not known how much time it lay in the waste pit. The dog was demined by bomb technicians.

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• russian crimes
• Kyiv