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The grand opening of the exhibition of Pavlo Ponomarenko’s paintings and graphics will take place in HotArtHall gallery on July 14 at 6:00 PM. He lived and painted in Mariupol till March 2022. The artist had to leave his native city due to the war.

His exhibition titled Reflections offers an artist’s glance at the events in his native city, country, and the world as a whole. Using a limited range of geometrical shapes and a contained range of colors, the artist offers an opportunity to look into feelings and situations that he and his loved ones had faced.

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• Lviv

Bikes4Ukraine, a Danish charitable project, delivered the first batch of 100 bikes for the Ukrainian IDPs from residents of Copenhagen. The Bikes4Ukraine initiative is led by the Danish urbanist Mikael Colville-Andersen. He aims to deliver 2000 bikes to Lviv and develop 20 kilometers of bike lanes linking the rental stations. This initiative will contribute to urban mobility so that IDPs can pick up a bike free of charge at rental stations.

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Refugee volunteers from Donetsk region opened a meal center in Lviv, where they serve home-cooked meals. Lunches are free for internally displaced children with their parents. Other vulnerable groups can get a full three-course meal for UAH 50. Volunteers have also managed to set up their own production of macaroni in the meal center.

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• volunteers
• Lviv

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.

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• 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.

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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