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Metinvest Group together with fundraising platform UNITED24, the Ministry of Digital Transformation and SOVA jewelry house released a limited series of bracelets called “A Symbol of Perseverance. Azovstal”. They are made of the last batch of steel from Azovstal Steelworks in Mariupol.

10,000 bracelets were made out of the last batch of steel produced in February at Azovstal Steelworks in Mariupol by order of fundraising platform UNITED24. The bracelet, weighing 5 grams, cost UAH 1,500, and all proceeds went to the “Army of Drones” project. The Ukrainians bought the whole batch of bracelets on day one. Currently, the organizers of the campaign are busy producing the second batch.

For reference: The steel that was used to make the bracelets was also used to make a spaceship launch pad  in 1981 and a new sarcophagus at Chornobyl nuclear power plant in 2012.

In 2022, the plate rolling facility, where steel had been produced for many years, became one of the places where the defenders of Mariupol heroically protected the city.  

• Mariupol

The premiere of the play “Cry of the Nation” by Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater from Mariupol took place in Uzhhorod. The troupe of the theater was provided a place to work from on the stage of Zakarpattia Regional Music and Drama Theater. The first performance at the new venue was a story about the life of the Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus. The premiere took place on July 16 — exactly four months after the russians destroyed the oldest theater in Mariupol with an airstrike, burying hundreds of civilians under the debris.

• culture
• Mariupol
• Uzhhorod