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Free football training sessions for amputees and servicemen who lost limbs in war with the occupiers to begin in Kyiv on June 6. The Ukrainian Football Association for People with Disabilities organizes the training. The project’s primary goal is to help with the social adaptation and rehabilitation of veterans. The players who show the best results can represent Ukraine in international competitions.

• casualties
• military
• Kyiv

Media Center Ukraine – Ukrinform to host an event dedicated “Culture vs. War” project about Ukrainian artists at war and the first documentary film about the ANTYTILA band release

Speakers:

• Andrii Rizol, project producer
• Marco Ferraro, European Union project Program Manager
• Kadim Tarasov, director of the series of documentaries
• Taras Topolia, the Antytila band leader 
• Alina Krasnianska, the project’s documentaries executive producer
• Serhii Vusyk, the Antytila band manager and musician
• Dmytro Zholud, the Antytila band guitarist

The Culture vs. War project tells the world about the values of Ukrainian culture through the stories of artists who left their everyday lives and creative ambitions to defend the country. A key component of the project is a series of documentaries where Ukrainian musicians, filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other cultural figures are the main protagonists telling about this war through their own stories and memories.

Accreditation is mandatory. 

• culture
• Kyiv

It is planned to hold a panel discussion “LGBT community and society. What has changed since the full-scale war outbreak?” on June 5, at 2:00 PM. 

Speakers:

– Inna Sovsun, MP, initiator of the draft law on registered partnerships (in person);

– Alyona Gruzina, Culturologist, Communication Specialist at “Gender in Detail” (online)

– Andrii Kravchuk, NASH SVIT Center Advocacy Expert (in person)

– Maksym Potapovych, Media and Communication Manager at the NGO “Ukrainian LGBT+ Military” (in person); 

– Dmytro Havryliuk (Moralis), Head at the Executive Committee of the NGO “Ukrainian LGBT+ Military” (in person);

Topics for discussion:

– Change in attitude towards the LGBT community and society since the beginning of the full-scale invasion

– Are there any signs of discrimination against LGBT people at the front and in the army?

– Draft law on registered partnerships. 

• Kyiv
• LGBT

On June 5, Kyiv will hold a press conference entitled: “Announcement of Invictus Games Team Ukraine, which will represent Ukraine at the international competitions in Dusseldorf – 2023.” Participants at the press conference will include Yulia Laputina, Minister for Veteran Affairs of Ukraine; Ilona Voloshyna, Operations Team Lead of Invictus Games: Team Ukraine; Olena Ianovska, Head Coach of Invictus Team Ukraine 2023.

All-Ukrainian Invictus Games competitions took place in Lviv at the end of April. Based on their results, the selection committee chose the team roster that will represent our country in Dusseldorf at the Invictus Games international competition in September 2023.

For reference: The Invictus Games in Ukraine are the largest adaptive sports competition for veterans, which are designed to create new opportunities for wounded and traumatized Ukrainian veterans and servicemen, supporting them on the way to physical recovery, psychological rehabilitation and social integration.

• Kyiv

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