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A tent town for IDPs was set up in Mostyska community. It is located on the sports field of one of the schools. The area is 500 m2. The project was implemented together with the Swiss organization Remar S.O.S.

Currently, 14 people live there. In general, the temporary camp for internally displaced persons is designed for 100 tents. The tent town has sleeping places, a shower, a toilet, and a laundry room. There are also plans to open a children’s playground.

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62-years-old Iryna was seriously wounded due to the russian artillery attack on her neighborhood in Sievierodonetsk. Only 5 buildings remain standing on the street where Iryna and her grandson used to live. Her thigh had to be amputated due to the heavy injuries. Currently, she is in one of the hospitals in Lviv Oblast. The Hands for a Mom project raised money to buy a prosthetic leg for Iryna. Within the framework of this initiative, prominent artists sold their works at auctions abroad and in Lviv. They raised over 30,000 euros to provide prosthetics for women gravely injured during the war. Soon, project organizers will buy prosthetics for two more injured women.

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A 15-year-old Lviv resident, Nazar, came up with and assembled a portable charger by himself. The device can charge phones, walkie-talkies and drones of the Ukrainian military in the field. The device itself can be charged from a solar battery. Lviv mayor Andrii Sadovyi has already noticed Nazar’s invention, but he said that the production of this device must be scaled up.

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An Urban-toloka will take place in Lviv from August 12 to 14 to help clear the space for the future shelter camp for families with children. Residents of Lviv are invited to clean up an area of 5,700 square meters. A new modern shelter for people affected by the war is scheduled to open its doors in early October.

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Since February 24, Lviv Defense Cluster, together with the city institute, have sewed 80,000 body armor vests for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. More than a thousand people were involved in the production. During the first few months, up to 1,500 bulletproof vests were produced per day. In the first months, all body armor was delivered directly to the warehouses of the Ministry of Defense for the fastest possible distribution to the troops.

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Families of “Azovstal” defenders will hold a rally in Lviv. The rally will take place on August 5 at 7:00 PM in front of the Lviv National Opera building. The purpose of the event is to call on the world community and international organizations to save the lives of the prisoners, to return the Mariupol garrison to the territory controlled by Ukraine, and to recognize russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. According to the relatives of Azov soldiers, there has been no contact with the Ukrainian prisoners of war for several months, and the russians violate all possible rules for the treatment of prisoners. The families of prisoners of war also plan to hold rallies similar to the one in Lviv in various European cities.

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Lviv School No. 23 will get a new building for its elementary classes. It will be built using 3D-printing technologies. Kyiv-based Balbek Bureau developed the exterior and interior design of the school. The first students will start using the new school building with the start of the new academic year in September 2023. The delivery of the 3D printer to Lviv is expected the next week.

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On August 6, Lviv City Council and Lviv State University of Life Safety will host a familiarization training for residents of the city on what to do in the case of a chemical, radiation, or biological attack. Registration for the training event is required. This event is organized for the second time after more than two hundred people took part in the first training event.

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About a hundred works of the legendary Ukrainian artist Maria Prymachenko are exhibited in Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv. The opportunity to see these paintings exists thanks to an art critic and an academician from Kyiv, Eduard Dymshits, who has collected the artist’s works for 30 years.

For reference: Maria Prymachenko is a Ukrainian folk artist who worked in the genre of naïve art.

At the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion, a shell of the invaders hit a museum in Kyiv region, where a part of her paintings was kept. Local residents, risking their own lives, rescued the pieces of art from the burning building.

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• russian crimes
• Lviv

At the start of russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, Uliana and Vitalii stayed in their Bucha apartment for two weeks (without electricity, gas, water, and communication). Later, they risked their lives to get out of the russian occupation. Now the spouses who use wheelchairs live in Lviv and help people with disability. For instance, they evacuate people with spinal cord injuries to other countries and provide humanitarian aid.

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