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On June 5, at 11:00 AM, Media Center Ukraine – Ukrinform will hold the event entitled “Veterans and military: respect vs. discrimination.”

As part of the event, the Ukrainian Veterans Foundation of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs together with the Independent Anti-Corruption Commission (NAKO) and the sociological group “Rating” will present a study: “Discrimination of different social groups in the Armed Forces of Ukraine: military and civilian points of view.” And there will also be a discussion of complex and important topics.

Participants:

• representatives of the Ministries
• Ruslana Velychko-Trifonyuk – First Deputy Executive Director of the Ukrainian Veterans Foundation
• Svitlana Musiiaka — Head of Research and Policy at NAKO
• Liubomyr Mysiv – Deputy Director of the Sociological Group “Rating”
• Oksana Hryhorieva – Gender Advisor to the Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
• Maria Berlinska – a veteran, volunteer
• Yulya Kirillova – veteran, analyst of the Ukrainian Veterans Foundation
• veterans

Issues to be discussed include:

• Veteran policy is one of the Government’s priorities. More than 15% of the population of Ukraine will be eligible for veteran benefits after the end of the russo-Ukrainian war. Is the state ready?
• Discrimination of the military in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Which categories are the most vulnerable and why is it an important issue to investigate?
• How the attitude towards women in Ukraine’s Armed Forces and society has changed since 2014. Is “positive discrimination” a challenge?

Registration is required.

• military
• Kyiv

On June 1, at 12:30 PM, “Ukraine 5 AM Coalition” will hold a press conference entitled: “Ukrainian children under russian control: how to protect their rights and future?”

During the event, the participants will discuss: the current situation with the abduction of Ukrainian children by the russians, specific cases of such crimes, attempts by the russian occupiers to “re-educate” Ukrainian children and destroy their identity, etc.

Participants:

• Onysiia Syniuk – legal analyst at ZMINA Center for Human Rights;
• Valentyna Potapova – Head for National Advocacy in Education at Almenda Civic Education Center;
• Kseniia Korniienko – lawyer at the Regional Center for Human Rights;
• Anastasiia Pantelieieva – Head of the Documentation Department at the Media Initiative for Human Rights;
• Ievgeniia Kapalkina – lawyer at Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group.

For reference:

“Ukraine 5 AM Coalition” started working on February 25, 2022, the day after russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today, 34 NGOs and four individual experts are united in the Coalition. They combined their efforts to systematically document war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the russian armed aggression against Ukraine.

• children
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

On June 2, the Center for Civil Liberties, an organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize, invites journalists to a press conference on the russian federation’s crimes against media workers since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

Participants: Sergiy Tomilenko, Head of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine; Svitlana Ostapa, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Detector Media, Head of the Supervisory Board of Suspilne; Serhiy Movchan, Head of the War Crimes Documentation Department of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU); Anna Popova, Project Manager of the Center for Civil Liberties. Moderator: Oleksandra Romantsova, Executive Director at the Center for Civil Liberties.

The following topics will be discussed during the press conference:

• Is it possible to name the exact number of media workers who died while performing their work duties?
• How many journalists and other media workers died while serving in the military?
• How do the occupiers destroy newsrooms and broadcasting facilities, such as TV and radio towers?
• How often do media workers take the side of the enemy and become collaborators?

• russian crimes
• Kyiv

On June 16, actor Oleksii Surovtsev will open a veterinary clinic for homeless animals in Irpin. Ukrainian celebrities will visit the opening.

As reported, at the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion, Oleksii responded to a request to save a cat in Irpin. Since then, people began to actively appeal to the man to save their pets (cats and dogs). Despite all the risks, he evacuated the animals every day. And after the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated Kyiv oblast from the occupiers, he created a shelter for cats.

• animals
• occupation
• Kyiv

The independent volunteer art collective Spilka started drilling a well in the village of Korolivka, Makariv district, Kyiv Oblasts, on May 30. This village was heavily damaged during the fighting in February-March 2022. The drilling of the well is one of the stages of the project to help the village community: the hospital reconstruction, partially damaged by explosions, was the project’s first phase. Another stage will be constructing a bomb shelter at the Korolivka Lyceum. Currently, students cannot attend the institution having no shelter.

For reference: Spilka is an independent volunteer collective of artists based in New York, Paris and Kyiv. Spilka’s activities are focused on raising funds through artistic, cultural and sporting events in the cities of its main base.

• culture
• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• volunteers
• Kyiv

Heavily damaged during the fighting, Irpin’s private sector is under comprehensive reconstruction. The area suffered most from constant artillery shelling and air strikes carried by the Russian military. More than 60 families who lost their homes could finally move back into their own homes by the end of this year. The houses will be restored at the expense of local and regional budgets, as well as the UN Refugee Agency. The agency is providing more than $2 million in construction materials. In addition to the houses, public works aim to complete street repairs. 

For reference: In February-March 2022, Irpin city in the Kyiv region became the main battlefield during the Russian offensive against the capital. Russian invaders occupied a third of the city, and it was here that the Ukraine Armed Forces and the Territorial Defense Forces managed to defeat the Russians. Over 300 civilians were killed in the fighting, and thousands have become homeless. In particular, one of the city’s neighborhoods (described above) was almost completely destroyed, including by Russian air bombs.

• occupation
• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

On May 27, relatives of civilian prisoners from Kyiv region will organize the peace walk “Free the civilian prisoners.”

The organizers of the walk say that it has been almost 14 months since the civilian residents of Dymer and neighboring communities were taken captive by the aggressor, the russian federation.

“Thousands of civilians are currently held captive by russia. They are tortured, starved, put under psychological pressure and placed in an information vacuum. Innocent people are abused morally and physically. All of them should be released. WITHOUT CONDITIONS AND EXCHANGES!”.

Time: 9:30 AM

Location: Dymer Village Council.

• occupation
• prisoners
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

The Kolonshchyna Lyceum of Bucha district in Kyiv region will hold a charity fair on May 27 to commemorate Children’s Protection Day. The funds will go to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The second reason for the fair is to raise awareness. Representatives of the Kyiv Aeronautical Society will start a campaign to collect sponsorship funds to build a safe shelter for students of the Kolonshchyna Lyceum.

According to the organizers, Kolonshchyna has always been the center of aviation in Kyiv region. Currently, more than 200 children from the de-occupied village are studying online, and flights are banned until the area is completely cleared of mines. But the aeronauts, who have already collected money for 8 ambulances with the help of foreign colleagues, will once again turn to the international aeronautical community to get help for children.

• children
• occupation
• Kyiv

Some UAH 15 million were raised by Save Ukraine charitable fund and PrivatBank as a part of the charity campaign “Give Light to Children.” With these funds, benefactors purchased “security and development” backpacks for almost 2,000 children who lost their parents due to the war.

The results of the campaign will be announced on June 1, 2023 in Kyiv during a charitable educational event for 25 children cared for by Save Ukraine fund. PrivatBank specialists will hold a lesson on financial literacy for them, and Save Ukraine volunteers will talk about psychological practices that reduce the negative impact of war related trauma.

Visitors at the event will be the first to receive “security and development” backpacks as a part of the campaign. There is a tablet with educational apps in each gift bag. In addition to tablets, the backpacks also contain power banks, blankets, and other useful items that can give a sense of support to the children, from whom the war took away their most precious ones.

For reference: June 1 is International Children’s Day

As reported, Save Ukraine rescue network went on 6 missions to return 96 children to Ukraine after they had been illegally deported by russia.

• children
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

On May 26, at 11:00 PM, Media Center Ukraine will host a briefing entitled: “Key results of the Commissioner on Persons Gone Missing under Special Circumstances activities”

Participants:

– Oleh Kotenko, Commissioner on Persons Gone Missing under Special Circumstances;

– Ivan Anhelin, Commissioner on Persons Gone Missing under Special Circumstances;

– Oleh Khoroshykh, Advisor to the Commissioner on Persons Gone Missing under Special Circumstances;

– Nataliia Babiichuk, Advisor to the Commissioner on Persons Gone Missing in Special Circumstances;

At the briefing, the participants will talk about the work of the search groups of the Commissioner’s Office, the number of already covered locations and the number of bodies returned from the de-occupied territories, how the process of searching for the missing persons takes place, and more.

• Kyiv