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From April 17 to 19, a recruit training school for civilians organized by Khartiia Hub will take place in Lviv. During the three-day program, instructors will conduct basic military training sessions. Participants will acquire fundamental military skills and gain a better understanding of how the Ukrainian military operates.

The program includes weapons handling, the basics of tactical medicine under fire, combat planning procedures, small-unit tactics, and more.

The training will take place in field conditions and will be led by experienced military instructors.

Prior registration is required.

• military
• Lviv

Halyna Hlobchasta is the head of the villages of Makiivka and Hrekivka in the Luhansk region. For more than 30 years, she worked as a teacher of mathematics and physics in her hometown of Makiivka. She later became the village head.

On March 3, 2022, russian forces occupied her village. Halyna categorically refused to cooperate with the occupiers. In mid-April of the same year, russian forces abducted her. She was interrogated and brutally tortured. In her yard, the occupiers found a hiding place with Ukrainian flags and blue-and-yellow ribbons. During one of the interrogations, they brought in her husband and ordered them to say goodbye.

Eventually, the couple was released, and they decided to flee the occupation. They managed to reach the Kharkiv region, where they met Ukrainian soldiers.

Journalists can arrange to speak with Halyna Hlobchasta both online and offline in Lviv, by prior arrangement.

• casualties
• occupation
• prisoners
• russian crimes
• women
• Lviv

Two years ago, Lviv resident Maksym Vintoniv created his first miniature — the entrance of the building where he grew up. He gave the piece to a friend. A year later, while visiting, he took a photo of it and posted it on social media. The post quickly went viral. People started reaching out to Maksym, saying they would gladly order a similar miniature.

Among them were Ukrainians who had lost their homes in Mariupol or Kharkiv and asked whether he could recreate their apartment entrances based on descriptions. Now he creates miniature copies based on photographs or people’s memories. They can be used as night lights, as tiny bulbs inside the models actually light up. Maksym plans to put one of these pieces up for auction to raise funds for the army.

Journalists can arrange to speak with Maksym Vintoniv both online and offline in Lviv, by prior arrangement.

• culture
• Lviv

Veterans Theatre invites audiences to the Festival of First Plays in Lviv, which will take place on April 4–5.

The Festival of First Plays will feature stories that have never been performed on stage before. Over the course of two days, Lviv residents will hear personal experiences of Ukraine’s defenders. The plays were created by participants as part of a special course by the Veterans Theatre in Lviv, curated by Alina Sarnatska.

The festival will present plays by Alina Sarnatska, Andrii Teraz, Anna Ivantsyk, Vlad Ternopol, Heorhii Sobolevskyi, Dmytro Ilin, Zoriana Hrebeniukova-Kobenko, Mariana Chernomyrhyn, Mykhailo Taraban, Olha Voroniuk, Orysia Hryhorenko, and Yuliia Romaniuk.

As part of the festival, a discussion titled “How/when/for whom should plays about war be written and staged?” will also take place. Participants include Ihor Bilyts, chief director of the Maria Zankovetska Theatre, writer and playwright Natalkа Vorozhbyt, co-founder of the Veterans Theatre Maksym Kurochkin, and INDEX director Sasha Dovzhyk.

The project is implemented in partnership with INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange and with the support of Razom for Ukraine.

Background: Veterans Theatre is a social and artistic project created in cooperation with the Public Relations Service of the Territorial Defense Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (TRO Media) and the Theatre of Playwrights.

The idea of the Veterans Theatre emerged in response to the urgent need for therapeutic support for veterans of the Russian-Ukrainian war returning from the front. The project combines art therapy and theatre. It is a platform for creativity, recovery, and dialogue, where through драматургія and acting practice participants learn to speak about their experiences and transform them into art. It brings together veterans, their families, and civilians who have lived through traumatic experiences.

• culture
• Lviv

Skeiron has digitally documented damage to the Bernardine Monastery complex in Lviv. This was necessary to record the condition of the site immediately after the strike, as some information could have been lost during cleanup and restoration.

Skeiron was founded in Lviv in 2016 by a group of enthusiasts. Its main goal is to preserve and promote cultural heritage through digitalization. The team documents both preserved and destroyed landmarks with the aim of supporting their future restoration.

Over the years, the team has digitized and reconstructed more than 270 sites, including those destroyed during the war. Among them is a 3D reconstruction of the Mariupol Drama Theatre destroyed by Russia. The largest sites digitized include Chernivtsi University and the Odesa Opera House.

Journalists can arrange interviews with Skeiron representatives both online and offline in Lviv by prior arrangement.

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• russian crimes
• Lviv

From March 22 to 28, Ukraine will host the sixth Face to Face humanitarian mission. A team of American reconstructive facial surgeons will work in Lviv for a week.

Doctors will provide assistance to patients with facial nerve palsy, bone loss in the face, eyelid and orbital injuries, and soft tissue deformities. Both military personnel and civilians injured as a result of the war can apply, and all surgeries will be provided free of charge.

Journalists can arrange interviews with the medical team both online and in person in Lviv, by prior arrangement.

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• doctors
• Lviv

On the fourth anniversary of the terrible tragedy that occurred at the Mariupol Drama Theater, journalists are invited to attend memorial events and honor the memory of the civilian and military victims.

In particular, a prayer service will be held in Kyiv on March 15. On March 16, memorial events honoring those killed at the Mariupol Drama Theater will take place in various cities across Ukraine: Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Kalush, Kamensk, Kremenchuk, Kropyvnytskyi, Poltava, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa, Rivne, Ternopil, Uzhhorod, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, and Chernivtsi.

For reference: On March 16, 2022, russian occupiers dropped aerial bombs on the Mariupol Drama Theater. The word “CHILDREN,” written in large letters and clearly visible from the sky, did not stop them. Hundreds of Mariupol families were taking shelter in the theater. Hundreds of innocent people were killed that day, including children.

The russian occupation authorities restored the building, permanently destroying any possibility of conducting a fair investigation into the deaths at the Drama Theater.

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• dead
• russian crimes
• Dnipro
• Kyiv
• Lviv
• Odesa

The sixth Face to Face humanitarian mission will take place in Ukraine from March 22 to 28. A team of American facial reconstructive surgeons will work in Lviv for a week.

The doctors will help those with facial paralysis, facial bone loss, eyelid and eye socket injuries, and facial tissue deformities. Military personnel and civilians who have been wounded in the war can apply — all operations will be free of charge.

You can communicate with the team of doctors both online and offline in Lviv, by prior arrangement.

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• doctors
• Lviv

In Lviv, the UNBROKEN rehabilitation center has begun manufacturing prosthetic eyes, noses, and ears for patients who have lost part of their face in war, as a result of an accident, or due to illness. Exoprosthetist Taisiya Yarova creates special overlays that attach to the skin and mimic a natural appearance.

In total, the center has already made 20 eyeball prostheses, one exoprosthesis overlay for the face, and one exoprosthesis for a finger (a new direction).

A facial exoprosthesis is a prosthesis that attaches to the skin and mimics the natural appearance of lost parts. The process of manufacturing prostheses is extremely complex. First, the prosthetist takes a cast of the patient’s face, performs a 3D scan, and manually forms a prototype from plasticine based on the digital model. Then they make a wax model that reproduces the texture and color of the skin, wrinkles, and the smallest anatomical details. After that, the specialist casts the model from medical silicone and paints it by hand.

By prior arrangement, journalists can learn more about exoprosthetics at the UNBROKEN center in Lviv and talk to exoprosthetist Taisiya Yarova.

• casualties
• doctors
• Lviv

Nazarі Krasovsky signed a contract with the 12th Azov Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine in 2020. The soldier encountered a full-scale invasion in Mariupol, defended Azovstal, and, together with his comrades, carried out the command’s order and surrendered in May 2022.

Nazari spent 3.5 years in captivity. To keep himself going, the soldier wrote poems, scratched lines on a bar of soap, and when the opportunity arose, transferred the texts to scraps of paper. The man was returned home in August 2025 during a prisoner exchange.

Since then, Nazarі has been undergoing rehabilitation at the UNBROKEN center in Lviv. The soldier has a serious spinal injury, which he sustained while in captivity. The soldier said that he had long wanted to sing with Khristina Soloviy. During a gala evening organized by the rehabilitation center, Nazarі managed to fulfill this dream. On stage, they performed the song “Who, if not you?”, and the audience gave them a standing ovation.

You can speak with Nazari Krasovskyi both online and in person in Lviv or Kyiv by prior arrangement.

• casualties
• culture
• military
• prisoners
• russian crimes
• Kyiv
• Lviv