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Every third Friday of the month, 12 Kyiv subway stations host first aid training sessions. The training is conducted by the Center for Emergency Medical Care and Disaster Medicine experienced specialists and instructors. Anyone can join the training available free of charge. Practices on how to conduct an initial assessment of the victim’s condition, how to act in case of massive bleeding, airway obstruction, thermal burns, etc are taught by doctors.. The training was launched last year by the Ministry of Health and the Kyiv Metro. At least 10,000 passengers have already undergone 11 trainings, thanks to which at least 10,000 passengers have acquired first aid skills. 

Important: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine event accreditation for the foreign media is required. 

• doctors
• Kyiv

The Military Sewing Company is a voluntary association of people who volunteer to sew adaptive clothing for wounded soldiers: pants, shorts, underpants, T-shirts, etc. The adaptive clothing with Velcro, ties, or buttons is designed so injured defenders can put it on comfortably and painlessly. 

The Military Sewing Company has already produced over 30,000 pieces of such clothing. They are sent to more than 50 medical institutions across Ukraine, as well as to soldiers in need of such garments.

The Military Sewing Company was founded in Dnipro. People who have joined the initiative and sew clothes (in workshops, sewing shops, or home-based ones) are located in Kyiv, Dnipro, Rivne, Poltava, Zhytomyr, and Lviv. Some seamstresses are actively involved in sewing while residing in Norway, Germany, and Canada.

• casualties
• military
• volunteers
• Dnipro
• Kyiv
• Lviv
• Poltava
• Zhytomyr
• Rivne

On July 20, Top Lead content marketing agency’s study “Russia-Ukraine War: Environmental Impact” on the impact of russian armed aggression on Ukraine’s environment will be presented at a press conference. The topics of focus include: what are the damages to the environment from the full-scale war; what is Ukrainian business doing to overcome the consequences of ecocide; the problem of demining agricultural land, “green” recovery.

Participants:

• Stanislav Shum, CEO Top Lead;
• Oleksandr Krasnolutskyi, First Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine;
• Natalia Slobodian, Head of the Climate Change and Environment Protection Department, DTEK;
• Mykhailo Rizak, Director for Government Relations and Sustainable Development, NIBULON;

Pre-accreditation required.

• ecology
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

The All-Ukrainian Center for the Adoption of Homeless Animals “Patron Pets Center” launched a new project entitled “Walk with me.” Its purpose is to socialize four-legged friends. Those who are willing to take part in the project can walk animals in the center of the capital every day from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM, and from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

“Patron Pets Center” cooperates with volunteers who evacuate animals from regions suffering from russia’s full-scale invasion. So, for example, the Center recently sheltered more than a hundred pets from Kherson region. Volunteers also bring animals from Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.

In Kyiv, “Patron Pets Center” provides shelter to animals, rehabilitates them and helps to find owners.

• animals
• volunteers
• Kyiv

On July 20, journalists are invited to attend an event at the MeMariupol center in Kyiv, where the mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boichenko, will talk about the life of Mariupol residents during the year of occupation. He will also talk about the year of operation of MeMariupol centers, plans for the city’s rebuilding, and programs for Mariupol residents. The event will be attended by:

– Oksen Lisovyi, Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine 

– Étienne de Poncins, Ambassador of France to Ukraine 

– Donetsk Oblast Military Administration and Kyiv City State Administration leadership

– Borys Filatov, Mayor of Dnipro

– Serhii Morhunov, Mayor of Vinnytsia

The event will also be joined by Save the Children, World Central Kitchen, and the USAID Economic Support for Ukraine project representatives, which have been actively helping Mariupol residents return to life after the destruction of their city. In addition to the event’s guests, journalists will have the opportunity to talk to Mariupol residents who regularly visit the center.

Event accreditation is required.

• occupation
• russian crimes
• Kyiv
• Mariupol

On July 18-19, the International Forum of the Crimea Platform Expert Network ” Foreseeing the Future: Expert’s View” will be held in the capital. The speakers and participants at the forum will include leading experts from over 20 countries of the world.

Representatives of the Office of the President of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will take part in the event.

Ukraine’s victory in the war started by russia will usher in a new world order. In order to understand how to build a post-war global security configuration and establish an order based on the principles of international law, Ukrainian experts and human rights defenders initiated this forum.

The participants of the event will discuss the future architecture of world security and the security of the Black Sea region.

Pre-registration is required. 

• russian crimes
• Kyiv

Another training for future volunteer medics will take place on July 16, Sunday in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The Hospitallers medical volunteer battalion organizes the courses regularly. In total, the training lasts for ten days, and future paramedics can attend classes both near Dnipro and in Kyiv.

Journalists can cover the training process.

• doctors
• volunteers
• Dnipro
• Kyiv

Yuliia’s father, Serhii Khrypun, is a civilian who, at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, found himself under occupation in a village in Zaporizhia.  Serhii tried to leave the Russia-occupied territory many times, but having no passport, he was refused to pass through the checkpoints. Later, the family found out Russia had taken Serhii prisoner. Yuliia collected bits of information about her father from the military, who were released through exchanges. In September 2022, the girl received the last news from her father, a letter in which Serhii wrote that they were being treated well in captivity. However, Yuliia talked to those who had seen her father. From them, she learned that the man was subjected to electrical torture and was forced to sing the Russian anthem for six hours a day.

Together with other relatives of the prisoners, Yuliia created the NGO Civilians in Captivity. They contact all possible organizations to find out where and under what conditions their loved ones are taken captive.

• prisoners
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

Denys Dudnyk is a professional pilot who served at the Sevastopol international airport in Belbek from 1993 to 1995. In 2014, he joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine and participated in the battles near Volnovakha and Debaltseve. After his demobilization in 2015, Denys set up a knifemaking workshop as a therapy for the military. When the full-scale invasion began, Denys enlisted in the army again. Russians destroyed his workshop and home in the Kyiv region, and the soldier was injured at the front. Later, Denys took part in the Ukrainian Veterans Fund’s Varto 2.0 project, secured financial support, and opened the Tanto psychological assistance hub in Irpin. The hub employs psychologists ready to provide psychological assistance to veterans and those who lost loved ones during the war.

• military
• psychological support
• Kyiv

On July 13, at 1:00 PM, the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War will host a briefing on the large-scale project of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine – the Soviet-era coat of arms removed and replaced with the Ukrainian trident on Motherland’s shield being implemented.

The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, along with its partners, will present information about the stages, funding, challenges, decisions, and other details of the historical project to replace the USSR coat of arms with the trident on the shield of the Motherland Monument. Oleksandr Tkachenko, Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine; Yurii Savchuk, Director of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the World War II; Oleksii Pergamenshchyk, sculptor of the project;
Vasyl Borodai, a descendant of one of the authors of the sculpture of Motherland Monument.

Event accreditation is required.

For reference: 85% of Ukrainians voted to replace the USSR coat of arms with a trident on the shield of the Motherland monument in the Diia application polled last year.

• culture
• Kyiv