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On April 19, a mobile settlement, built at the expense of Lithuania, will be opened in Borodyanka village, Kyiv region. The participants of the event will have an opportunity to also see the school that Lithuania is currently rebuilding.

A press briefing by the delegation of the Republic of Lithuania is planned as part of the event.

For reference: Mobile settlements built with Lithuanian funds are houses that provide temporary residence for people from the destroyed village. The walls in the settlement will be decorated with the works of a Ukrainian muralist, and there is a school that was destroyed by the russians next to it. Lithuania is already rebuilding this school so that the children can continue their studies in September.

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• reconstruction
• Kyiv

In Horodnya, Chernihiv region, construction of a multifunctional educational center has started in a shelter of a school. This is “first aid” for education in communities affected by the war. The center located in the shelter is a safe space for learning, where the educational process will not be interrupted by air raid alerts. The center is comfortable and cozy, it has furniture, electronic devices, books, and other learning aids. Two more such centers will be set up in Anysiv and Kolychivka of Ivanivka community, Chernihiv region.

Digital educational centers for children are already in operation in Kyiv and Chernihiv regions.

For reference: Digital educational centers are locations for learning and leisure, located on school grounds (with some exceptions).The work of centers is managed by mentors. In particular, centers provide entertainment and relaxation activities.

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• Chernihiv
• Kyiv

On April 13, at 11:00 AM, 5 ambulances provided by Switzerland will be delivered to medical institutions in Kramatorsk and Kharkiv at the initiative of the SMARTA NGO.

Address of the press event: Kyiv Oblast, Chabany village.

Participants: Mr. Alvaro Borghi, Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine; Lilia Kislitsyna, Chairperson of the SMARTA NGO; Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine, Donetsk Regional and Kramatorsk City Administrations, targeted medical institutions, national and regional media representatives 

For reference: SMARTA is a civil society organization based in Kramatorsk (Donetsk Oblast) whose primary goal is to protect women’s rights and promote gender equality. In recent years, the organization has implemented a number of socially significant projects in the field of combating discrimination against women in the labor market, advocating for women’s reproductive rights by creating a third-level perinatal center in the Donetsk region and localizing the agenda of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security. After russia’s invasion, the organization focused on providing humanitarian aid to the country’s east.

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Dobrobat volunteer movement members are rebuilding houses damaged by the Russian occupiers in the Demydiv in Kyiv Oblast. Currently, group volunteer recruitment is still ongoing to join the work.

For reference: “Dobrobat is a volunteer building division helping those affected to restore housing and social infrastructure in the de-occupied territories.

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• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• volunteers
• Kyiv

On April 13, the planned explosive ordnance disposal discovered in the de-occupied territory of Kyiv Oblast will take place. (Controlled TM-62 and VOG-25 anti-tank mines clearance and artillery shell fuses disposal will be carried out).

The event will be attended by Mykola Murai, Head of the Kyiv Oblast Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service, and personnel responsible for providing information on demining in the Oblast.

Accreditation is required.

• Kyiv

More than 2,000 military personnel and more than 1,000 civilians have undergone tactical medicine training at “Soloma Cats” charitable foundation since the beginning of this year. Training is open for everyone in April. After all, it is certain that in a critical situation, people who have undergone training will be better equipped to help themselves or save those around them.

For reference: “Soloma Cats” charitable foundation helps Ukrainian military, rescuers and civilians. Their focus is on tactical medicine and mine clearing.

• Kyiv

On April 12, 2023, Media Center Ukraine — Ukrinform, the Media Initiative for Human Rights will present a map of places where the russians are holding Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war. The map contains systematic data on more than a hundred detention centers in russia, Belarus and the occupied territories of Ukraine. Information on places of detention was collected during interviews with victims and witnesses. Oleksandr Zhuhan, a civilian from Sumy region, who was held hostage by the russians for almost a year, will take part in the presentation.

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• prisoners
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

Tetiana is a resident of Hostomel and the head of two apartment buildings co-owners association. At the outbreak of the full-scale invasion, she opened all the basements for people to hide and placed pallets to have a stay.  Later, more than a hundred people were hiding there. There was even a 2-month-old baby among them. The woman did the cooking with her neighbors in her own apartment. When all communications were cut off, they prepared food on the street. A blast wave injured Tetiana’s husband.

On March 5, the occupants entered the houses and settled there. People stayed in the basements. Later, some of them decided to evacuate and go to another neighborhood, but they did not manage to leave. The occupiers told people to return, or they would be taken to Belarus. No one has been willing to. Instead, most went to the local prison bomb shelter. 

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• russian crimes
• Kyiv

To help children and their parents overcome the psychological implications of the occupation, mobile teams of psychologists from the Children’s Voices charity foundation visit villages and small towns with no specialists, suitable institutions, or stable public transportation. They organize individual and group psychological and psychosocial support for children and parents.

Currently, such mobile teams of psychologists are working in Kyiv and the region, Mykolaiv and Vysoke. During the year of the full-scale war, the foundation provided psychological and psychosocial assistance to 4,700 children and more than 1,800 adults.

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• psychological support
• Kyiv
• Mykolaiv

From the first days of the full-scale invasion, despite being outside his hometown of Hostomel, Kyiv region, Vitalii and his friends remotely organized a system for transmitting the coordinates of the russians who occupied Hostomel. He collected information on the location and movement of enemy troops online and helped to direct the artillery fire at them. During the occupation of the city, he recognized the location of the Chechen unit in a video posted on social media by Ramzan Kadyrov. Then he helped the Armed Forces of Ukraine to destroy the unit, for which he received a state award.

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• Kyiv