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Roberto Brambilla, a surgeon from Italy, will visit Ukraine again soon. Before that, he helped Lviv medics rescue wounded children and adults for two months. He taught them to cover soft tissue defects with artificial skin. This technology allows regrowing damaged skin centimeter by centimeter without scars. A teenager who had been under missile attack on Kramatorsk railway station was among patients treated under this procedure.

• casualties
• doctors
• Lviv

A team of activists established the Lviv Self-Defense Warrior school almost immediately after the start of russia’s full-scale invasion. Initially, only men were admitted for training. Later, it was realized that women needed to be able to handle firearms. Today, the school founders aim to train Ukrainians to be ready to defend their homes at any time.

Artem Bakanov, an entrepreneur who had to leave his home in Kyiv when a russian airplane fell on the ground nearby, is one of the school’s founders.

• Lviv

The training center of the LEV territorial defense battalion hosts free training for civilian residents of Lviv. Everyone can learn how to handle firearms and undergo weapon training. There are both men and women among the first trainees. They include Iryna Sabat, who spent 15 years of her life in France and decided to return home after the russian invasion had started. Her brother was mobilized, and she registered for the training course.

• military
• Lviv

A briefing by representatives of the Tribunal for putin initiative will take place at Media Center Ukraine at 11:00 AM on June 22. The initiative was established during the russo-Ukrainian war. The initiators document the events that bear signs of crimes according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide) in all regions affected by the invasion. The initiative is active at an international level aiming to use the existing mechanisms of the UN, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the EU, and the International Criminal Court to stop crimes and punish the guilty.

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• Lviv

Temporary housing for pregnant women, who had to flee the war, is under construction in Lviv. Two houses with a total area of 1,300 m2 are to be built. Each will have bedrooms, laundry rooms, showers, toilets, lounges, children’s areas, kitchens and dining rooms. Houses made of wooden structures are being assembled on site based on the US experience.

Local authorities are planning to build a small lake and a park near the buildings. The women are to be settled in July.

• casualties
• reconstruction
• women
• Lviv

The famous Georgian singer Nino Katamadze will visit Media Center Ukraine on June 17. The celebrity will take part in a charity concert in Lviv National Philharmonic Society together with the INSO-Lviv symphony orchestra and Nikoloz Rachveli, a Georgian composer and conductor, that will take place on the same day. All proceeds from ticket sales will be channeled to support Ukraine’s Armed Forces.

Earlier, the singer visited patients of a hospital in Lviv who had been wounded in the course of the russo-Ukrainian war. Also, Katamadze paid a visit to Bucha and Irpin. The celebrity singer gave a concert in a metro station in Kyiv.

• culture
• Lviv

Demir, a Turkish national currently living in Lviv, accommodated IDPs in his home after the russian invasion had started. A family from Dnipro lives now in Demir’s apartment.

Demir also bought two cars for Ukraine’s Armed Forces and the humanitarian aid delivery; he regularly donates blood for the military personnel.

He explains his supporting Ukraine willingly because he got help three years ago when he came to the country, so now it is his turn to help.

• casualties
• volunteers
• Lviv

Olha Honchar, Director of the Territory of Terror museum of totalitarian regimes in Lviv, is convinced that it is important to rescue not only museum exhibits during the war but also the museum staff. These people dedicated themselves to preserving culture and history. This is why she established a Museum Crisis Center. She and other museum workers and art historians in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhhorod, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Chernihiv Oblast, and abroad help their colleagues with medicines and humanitarian aid. They also contribute to disseminating their work by reporting information about them to UNESCO, international partners, and donors.

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• culture
• Lviv

After the outbreak of the all-out war, the East Ukrainian Technology Cluster left Kramatorsk, a city located near the frontline. Four companies evacuated their personnel and equipment to Lviv. Areal, one of the companies in the cluster, ambitiously aims to replace russian 1S accounting software and create an accounting ecosystem based on a Ukrainian software product. Svitlana Panova, a co-founder and director of the company, had to flee the war for the second time. Earlier, she had to leave her native Yalta in Crimea, currently occupied by russia.

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• Lviv

Engineers of GlobalLogic, an IT company, developed modern blood collection equipment. The device analyzes the donor’s condition, determines the appropriate amount of blood and the blood collection rate, and prevents it from clotting in the container. This equipment is extremely important during the war in Ukraine because it saves time for medics, allowing them to handle more donors. Over 70% of the USA and European medical market use the blood collection equipment developed by Ukrainian engineers.

• doctors
• Lviv