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On August 17, another rotation will start at the camp supporting the psychological and emotional state of teenagers from Kherson region, who suffered as a result of hostilities and by the explosion of the Kakhovka HPP caused by the occupiers. The camp is located in Truskavka, Lviv region. For 14 days, the visitors will focus on restoring their psycho-emotional state with the help of professional trainers and psychologists. Every day, teenagers will play outdoor games, engage in physical activity, attend trainings and master classes.

For reference: Leisure for teenagers from Kherson region is organized by the Coordination Center “Power of Youth” of the Ukrainian Leadership Academy together with the “JuniorS” NGO.

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Kateryna Onishchenko lived in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, after the start of russia’s full-scale invasion, she and her husband immediately started volunteering. Subsequently, the couple founded their own Volunteer Center in Kramatorsk and Hatiko UA charitable foundation, which began to care for disadvantaged people and animals in the east of the country. For more than a year, Kateryna and her husband have been taking care of those who need help: they bring food, clothes and medicines, as well as food and animal cages. Volunteers often delivered humanitarian aid to the hot spots at the front-line, in particular, they went to Avdiivka and Chasiv Yar. They also evacuate four-legged friends and their owners to safe places. 

Important notice: Kateryna Onishchenko is currently in Lviv, ready to communicate with journalists both online and in person. Kateryna’s husband is willing to meet with journalists in Kramatorsk.

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At the Superhumans Center, a modern rehabilitation and prosthetics center for war victims, hydrotherapy is used as one of the methods of rehabilitation. There is a state-of-the-art pool that is specifically adapted to the needs of patients. The treatment improves both the physical and psychological condition of the victims.

Patients can exercise in the pool only when wearing a special waterproof prosthesis. 

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On August 8, at 5:00 PM, the Lviv Municipal Art Center will open the exhibition “Artifacts of Invincibility in Resin: Exhibition of the Museum of War Fragments in Lviv”.

The Museum of Artifacts of War is 300 stories and objects, silent witnesses of what cannot be kept silent. Artifacts collected during a full-scale Russian invasion and frozen in transparent cubes. 

In particular, in the cubes, you will see items that the warriors of Azov carried through the capture after the defense of Azovstal and a salt crystal from Soledar.

After presenting exhibitions of artifacts of recent history in London, Tbilisi, and Odesa, the Museum of War Fragments will be on display in Lviv for a month.

For reference: The museum exists as an online platform on which all 300 artifacts will be presented. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the cubes will go to the rehabilitation of children, soldiers and help to their families. 

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• Lviv

In Lviv, soldiers who have lost their limbs and are going through a rehabilitation process can give the most extreme sports, such as rope free-flying, a try. It is about jumping with a rope over the Arena Lviv stadium from a height of 34 meters. The jumps are free for the defenders. The initiative is organized by the charitable foundation “With an Angel on Your Shoulder.” According to the benefactors, 13 soldiers have already made extreme jumps, and dozens are more daring to experience it.

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• Lviv

Wind Hunters yachting school invites military personnel, who were injured at the front and are undergoing rehabilitation in Lviv, to learn yachting. Classes for the soldiers are free.

Defenders will join the general groups that are already learning. One yachting lesson lasts 3.5 hours. The course is designed for a total of 6 classes.

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Ivanna Slobodyanyuk worked as a journalist, project author, and TV host for 10 years. During the full-scale invasion, she covered Russian crimes in foreign media outlets and began documenting the war traveling to the East after the loss of her friend. Ivanna decided to make a film in honor of her friend, an aerial reconnaissance man Felix Kurtanych, who died in April 2022, 

The historical-documentary film “Felix” tells the story of a Ukrainian hero and includes references to Ukraine’s way to independence. The film presents key events that make the audience reflect on the price the nation paid for its independence through the centuries and continues to defend it to this day.

The film was funded by Ivanna as a director and supported by donations from the military and compassionate individuals. The entire team worked voluntarily.

The movie will be presented in Lviv on August 10, Ivano-Frankivsk on August 11, Kolomyya on August 12, and in Austria on August 25. The proceeds from the film’s screening will be donated to the needs of the army.

Reference: Felix Kurtanych defended Ukraine in 2014. After two years, he left the service. With the beginning of the full-scale war, he defended Kyiv Oblast and later fought in the East of the country. The young man saved his comrades and was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage, Third Class.

It was he who flew a drone with an ad stating Garage for sale in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district with the phone number of the former Russian embassy in Ukraine, which intruded into the Reuters’ live broadcast from Kyiv’s Maidan Square on February 16, 2022.

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• Lviv

Valentyna has dreamed of becoming a soldier since she was a little girl. She looked up to her father, who has served in the Armed Forces since 2014. So she went to medical school and signed a contract with the 128th Combat Brigade in 2020. Valentyna became a combat medic and spent 9 months in the front-line trenches. During her service, she met her future husband, Dmytro. Together they faced the full-scale Russian invasion at a training ground in Dnipro. A few days later, they were transferred to Melitopol. Near Tokmak, an enemy shell hit the tank where Valentyna and Dmytro, and their comrades were. The comrades were killed on the spot, and Valentyna and her beloved were thrown away by the blast wave. Dmytro suffered a concussion but still managed to pull the girl away from the tank, stop the civilian car and bring Valentyna to the hospital, and her coma lasted 10 days. The soldier got a severe skull injury, a fractured pelvis, arm, and trachea. Valentyna underwent 15 surgeries, and now after rehabilitation can breathe on her own again. Dmytro proposed to his beloved right in the hospital. The man was given a military discharge so he could take care of his wife in the Lviv region.

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• Lviv

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.

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• Lviv
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• Rivne

One of Save Ukraine’s centers, the Good Samaritan House of Mercy, operates in the Lviv region. It takes care of people with limited mobility who suffered due to Russian aggression. Most of them are older adults unable to take care of themselves.

The Save Ukraine team evacuated these people from the dangerous area in time, and now they are safe and well-housed. 

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