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12 unique exhibits were presented at the exhibition in Lviv’s Arsenal Museum. The armed forces of Ukraine handed over armor plates that stopped enemy bullets and shrapnel in battle, and famous Ukrainian artists Ivan Marchuk, Tiberiy Silvashi, Nazar Bilyk, Petro Bevza, Andriy Bludov, Yurii Vakulenko, Oleksiy Sai, Svitlana Ratoshnyuk, Anton Logov, Leonid Kolodnitsky and icon painter Andrii Okhotsky turned them into art objects with exclusive stories. Later, these works are planned to be put up for auction. The collected funds will be used to purchase protective equipment for the military.

For reference: Ivan Marchuk is one of the most famous artists of modern Ukraine. In 2007, he was included in top 100 living geniuses, according to The Daily Telegraph. In June 2021, Ivan Marchuk’s painting “Golden Night” was sold for USD 96,800 dollars, the highest amount for the artist.

Tiberiy Silvashi is a Ukrainian abstract artist, whose paintings are kept in museums in Munich and Vienna, as well as in private collections in Europe and the USA.

• culture
• Lviv

Residents of Lviv can get their hands on the anti-tank weapons that the Ukrainian military uses to counter the aggressor. “Weapons of Victory” educational and interactive exhibition was opened in LЕM Station space. Visitors can hold NLAW, Javelin and about 30 more samples of used anti-tank weapons in their hands. There are screens that demonstrate the exhibits in use at the front. In addition, visitors can learn how to use various types of weapons on an interactive VR simulator.

The exhibition will last until December 30. At the closing, a charity auction will be held to sell used trophy weapons, items of military equipment and other unique items from the front line. The funds collected at the exhibition are planned to be used for the purchase of a training facility with augmented reality technology to hone the skills of using weapons.

• culture
• weapon
• Lviv

An unusual Christmas shop was set up in “Nahuievychi” State Reserve in Lviv region. In it, traditional biblical characters are substituted with political figures. In particular, there is a miniature of U.S. President Joseph Biden and Ukrainian hero Stepan Bandera near the newborn Jesus, as well as writer Ivan Franko in the image of a manner owner.

The authors of the idea explained such innovation with Ukrainian traditions, which always added national elements and modern references to the usual biblical stories.

• culture
• Lviv

Due to invaders’ missile attacks and the following power cuts, hundreds of people across the country are getting stuck in elevators. Residents of apartment buildings often leave special boxes with food and water in elevators to make it more comfortable for the stuck people to wait for “liberation”.

For example, in Lviv, dispatching services received almost 1,300 appeals about getting stuck in elevators during November alone. Previously, based on one of the municipal enterprises, additional emergency teams have been formed, which, in particular, rescue people.

• blackout
• casualties
• Kyiv
• Lviv

Kharkiv resident Yuliia Napolska has been helping foreign journalists film the fighting around her hometown since the beginning of the full-scale war and volunteered in the building of the Kharkiv Oblast Administration. On February 28, the girl miraculously escaped during the shelling of the city center – simply because she went to sleep in the dressing room at the ground level. After that, Yuliia moved to Lviv, but did not abandon volunteering: she carried bulletproof vests from abroad, arranged fund raising for things needed at the front. For example, she managed to raise a million hryvnias (almost USD 30,000) for a drone to the front line.

• volunteers
• women
• Kharkiv
• Lviv

The team of Lviv Defense Cluster has already handed over a hundred bulletproof vests to the doctors in Donetsk region. These are special bulletproof vests developed by Kharkiv Plant of Personal Protective Equipment, which are designed to protect against debris and bullets. Body armor is light and comfortable, so medics can work in them all day.

Medics in Kharkiv region also received bulletproof vests. After this, Lviv Defense Cluster plans to give protective equipment to doctors in Zaporizhia and Mykolaiv regions.

Within the scope of the project, medics working in the combat zone and near-front areas will receive a total of 3,000 specialized body armors free of charge.

• doctors
• volunteers
• Lviv

In July of this year, a barely alive 40-year-old woman from Bakhmut named Oksana was dug out of a 5-meter-deep crater formed as a result of a russian missile hit. Oksana was taken to a hospital in Dnipro in extremely serious condition. She had shrapnel wounds in her right lung and liver, extensive wounds to the left shoulder, an open fracture of both legs and the right arm. Doctors fought for her life in the intensive care unit for eleven days. As soon as it was possible to stabilize her condition, Oksana was taken by evacuation train to “Unbroken” National Rehabilitation Center in Lviv. Here, doctors performed a complex reconstructive surgery: the tissue from the patient’s back was transplanted to her limb, and her leg was saved from amputation. Oksana has a few more bone surgeries ahead of her, but she will definitely be able to walk.

• casualties
• doctors
• russian crimes
• Lviv

Oksana Dubyk from Mariupol found refuge in Lviv after her hometown was captured by the russians. The woman lives in a modular town and works in a flower shop, which she opened together with two other residents of Mariupol. In Lviv, Oksana is waiting for her husband, a 59-year-old Azovstal defender Ihor Dubyk. Ihor was captured by the russians on May 17. He was also in “Olenivka” penitentiary. On December 1, Ihor was released during the exchange of prisoners. The man is currently undergoing rehabilitation and awaiting surgery. Oksana and her children have already been able to meet him in the city where he is undergoing treatment.

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• prisoners
• women
• Lviv

In Lviv, entrepreneurs can obtain assistance in purchasing electricity generators for work. Here vouchers for energy supply are planned to be introduced, which can be used by Lviv restaurateurs and food sellers. Such vouchers provide for a refund of 50% of the equipment cost, but not exceeding UAH 80,000. It will be a simple procedure: entrepreneurs will submit applications and a package of documents to the Center of Administrative Services Provision, and the expert committee will promptly review them and pass decisions.

• blackout
• Lviv

Lviv Defense Cluster raised funds for the production of evacuation kits for children. Each set consists of a bulletproof vest and a helmet. Now the LDC is already completing the production of bulletproof vests and ordering the helmets. In next to no time, hundreds of children can be evacuated at the same time in protective kits.

Recall that Lviv Defense Cluster was addressed by the Juvenile Prevention Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine with a request to develop protective kits for children’s evacuation from the war zone and other dangerous areas.

• children
• volunteers
• Lviv