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The Loshadkin Dim riding school and equestrian theater, which managed to leave the now-occupied Kreminna in Luhansk Oblast, reopens in Lviv Oblast. Loshadkin Dim has been in Drohobych for over a month. Territory preparatory work for future classes with children is underway. The school had existed in Kreminna for 9 years, and they managed to take the horses out just before the occupation. A few hours after the animals were evacuated, their stables completely burned down.

• animals
• occupation
• Lviv

A social project supporting Ukraine’s defenders has been operating in Lviv and Ternopil since the beginning of the full-scale war.  Here couples can undergo a free infertility treatment program and cryopreserve (freeze) their biological material (sperm and eggs).

Journalists can learn more about this project from Stefan Khmil, MD, a fertility specialist, and from couples who have joined the initiative whenever possible.

• children
• doctors
• military
• Lviv
• Ternopil

On June 28-30, Lviv Urban Forum will be held in Lviv. The event will largely focus on rethinking the principles of restoration, transformation and development of Ukrainian cities and villages. The participants include more than 30 Ukrainian and foreign architects and urban planners, particularly, Shigeru Ban, a Japanese architect and laureate of the Pritzker Prize, and Kees Christiaanse, a leading world urban planner from the Netherlands.

In addition to the lectures, the program features workshops and a community opportunity fair.

• reconstruction
• Lviv

The construction of Ukraine’s first 3D-printed school has begun in Lviv. The concrete mixture for the structure has already been tested, showing good results. The printer will be used to construct the building for junior high school, designed for 100 first-graders. The construction should take four to five weeks. The school is set to open in 2024. The school project was developed by the Balbek Bureau architectural studio.

• Lviv

On April 28, Lviv will host a briefing by Artem Sytnyk, Deputy Head of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention.

Time: 11:30 AM

Place: Media Center Ukraine, 20 Ruska St., Lviv.

Accreditation is required.

• Lviv

On April 27, in Lviv, experts of the Heritage Emergency Response Initiative will present the results of their work. Experts spent over six months going on dozens of expeditions in Chernihiv, Sumy, Kyiv, and Kharkiv regions to record the damage caused to Ukrainian cultural heritage as a result of the russian invasion. The collected information includes: photographs of damage, documentation carried out in accordance with the methodology of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, eyewitness accounts, aerial photography, 3D models, etc.

Detailed program of the conference is available at:  https://bit.ly/3N2HLZX 

Awareness raising events will be held in Kyiv —  with a focus on looted museums, and in Kharkiv —  with a focus on war crimes against cultural heritage.

For reference: in February, Oleksandr Tkachenko, Minister of Culture and Information Policy, said that about 1,500 objects of cultural heritage and cultural infrastructure had been damaged or destroyed as a result of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

• culture
• occupation
• russian crimes
• Lviv

“The Race for the Drama Theater will start on April 23 at the Lviv Opera House. To participate, you need to fill in a registration form and make a charitable contribution. People from other cities can join the campaign online. The donations raised during the race will be transferred to The Association of Families of Azovstal Defenders. Families members of Azovstal’s Defenders will also take part in the race. The charity race organizer, Maria Nekrasova, has to experience Mariupol occupation herself.

For reference: More than 700 Azov fighters are still held captive by the Russians. They voluntarily laid down their arms in May 2022 after several months of defense of Mariupol.

• military
• prisoners
• Lviv

Luke Tomich, an American neurosurgeon with Ukrainian roots, will come to Lviv for the third time to operate on Ukrainian children with brain diseases. The neurosurgeon will work at St. Nicholas Hospital for Children from April 30 to May 6. Together with his Ukrainian colleagues, he has already planned to perform surgeries and hold a series of consultations.

The doctor’s visit will be supported by the Razom for Ukraine charitable foundation, founded by Luke Tomich with his Ukrainian wife in 2014.

• children
• doctors
• Lviv

12 mothers and 27 children currently live in Lviv-based Mother and Child Center “Unbreakable Mothers.” (There are mothers from Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions).

This modern facility was created last summer with the support of the Red Cross. The center is designed for more than a hundred people. Pregnant women and women with newborn children who left their homes fleeing the war can find shelter there. Comfortable living conditions have been created for these women. They can also obtain various social services.

• casualties
• women
• Lviv

On April 21, Lviv will host the Armor Fest charity festival to raise UAH 1 million. The funds will be spent on purchasing ultralight body armor plates for Ukrainian paramedics who save the lives of soldiers in the most challenging areas of the frontline. The festival is organized by the VETERANKA Women’s Veteran Movement, which assists the defenders of Ukraine and people affected by the Russian invasion.

• doctors
• military
• women
• Lviv