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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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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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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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Volunteers from Buduiemo Ukrayinu Razom (Build Ukraine Together) have been restoring buildings destroyed by the war in Ukraine’s east since 2014. Now, they help rescuers in Kyiv Oblast restore their damaged building. In Ukraine’s west, they renovate dormitory houses and private homes for IDPs.

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Scientists from the Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine have created “Hydrobynt” (hydro-bandage) medicine, which helps heal burns from phosphorus shells. The drug is based on silver nanoparticles that stimulate healing of wounds, burns and ulcers. “Hydrobynt” was developed by scientists in two forms: as a bandage and as a spray for disinfection.

Scientists have already sent a batch of the drug to field hospitals and received positive feedback from doctors. According to doctors, the pain in patients decreases immediately after the application of “Hydrobynt”, and the wounds get cleaned.

Now scientists offer to provide their technology to manufacturers so it could be mass produced.

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The presenter of the morning radio show helps retirees in Kyiv region, in particular, in the settlements affected by the russian occupation. To do this, the woman founded “Yulia’s Grannies” Charitable Foundation. One of the main Foundation’s activities is care for the elderly and lonely people. Recently the Foundation’s team visited Hornostaipil geriatrics center for the elderly and people with disabilities. The foundation delivered food there. Yulia is sure that for lonely old elderly there are no cooler grandchildren than Ukrainians who want to help.

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Students of the “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” have started collecting electronic cigarettes, spare parts of which might come in need for the production of drones. After all, the battery of an e-cigarette can become a part of the discharge system in drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The first batch of the collected parts has already been sent to the engineer.

Used cigarettes are collected on campus. In addition, an agreement has been reached with ROZETKA chain of stores: they will also collect e-cigarettes.

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First respondents from Lviv region demined settlements of Kyiv region liberated from the occupiers. Experts say they looked for explosives in enemy trenches, forests and detached houses with the permission of the owners. Among other things, they found missiles and mines that hadn’t exploded. For example, more than ten thousand munitions were neutralized in one small area.

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Bucha is a city in Kyiv Oblast that has been greatly affected by the russian occupation. Almost 2,000 residential properties, including almost 1,500 single-family houses, were damaged or destroyed. On June 24, Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland, and Oleksiy Chernyshov, Ukraine’s Minister of Communities and Territories Development, opened a modular camp for 352 residents in the hero city of Bucha. It accommodates residents of Bucha and neighboring cities. There are plans for building three camps like this one to accommodate 704 residents.

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In Kyiv Oblast, walking tours are organized in the towns that became victims of the russian invasion. Tour participants can visit interesting locations in Irpin, Bucha, and Borodianka and see the consequences of destruction with their own eyes. A walking tour costs UAH 150 per person.

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