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On May 4, 2023, Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, will hold a large press conference in Kyiv.

The Commissioner is ready to speak about the atrocities he saw with his own eyes: torture chambers in the liberated regions of Ukraine, mass burials in Izyum, testimonies of people who were in occupation and who know from their own experience what the conditions in the torture chambers were like, the return of Ukrainian children kidnapped by the russian federation, communication with the russian Commissioner for Human Rights regarding humanitarian issues, the results of this communication, the return of Ukrainian soldiers who were in russian captivity, problems with the return of civilian hostages currently held by the russian federation.

Accreditation is required.

• children
• military
• occupation
• prisoners
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

The national selection for the Invictus Games will be held in Lviv (international competition among servicemen and war veterans who suffered wounds and injuries, as a result of or in active duty in the war zone). This year the competition will include 9 sports. The national team of Ukraine will be formed based on the results of the selection. It will represent the country at the Invictus Games international competition in September in Germany.

The accreditation is open until 6:00 PM on April 26, 2023.

Important: For security reasons, the organizers are forced to introduce restrictions on spreading the information during the competition. All media representatives that will receive accreditation will be able to collect information unhindered, but it can be made public only after the end of the competition.

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More than 200 people have already received help at the Odesa Center for Psychological Support of the Naval Forces. These are Navy personnel and members of their families, as well as relatives of captured and deceased soldiers. The center specializes in various types of therapeutic support, in particular, animal-assisted therapy. Groups of military personnel have undergone equine-assisted therapy, and for children they have introduced canistherapy (rehabilitation with the help of dogs). The Psychological Support Center works with professional canine experts.

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• psychological support

Currently, if an air raid alert is announced in a certain Ukrainian city, it affects its entire territory. But with the Israeli system, air attacks warning will concern only certain areas. So in the rest of the city, people will not have to go to the shelter. The “Tzeva Adom” system (Red color) calculates the flight trajectory of a missile or drone and determines its flight path and the target. In addition, notifications about the attack are available in smartphone apps on the IOS and Android platforms. The system will be tested in Ukraine in May.

Alexander Niman is a paratrooper who served in the Israeli army as a master sergeant. With the beginning of the full-scale invasion, he came to Ukraine. He took part in military operations along the Kherson axis. Now he works as an instructor on a volunteer basis. In comments to journalists, he can explain how the Israeli early warning system works and how it can be implemented in Ukraine.

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“The Race for the Drama Theater will start on April 23 at the Lviv Opera House. To participate, you need to fill in a registration form and make a charitable contribution. People from other cities can join the campaign online. The donations raised during the race will be transferred to The Association of Families of Azovstal Defenders. Families members of Azovstal’s Defenders will also take part in the race. The charity race organizer, Maria Nekrasova, has to experience Mariupol occupation herself.

For reference: More than 700 Azov fighters are still held captive by the Russians. They voluntarily laid down their arms in May 2022 after several months of defense of Mariupol.

• military
• prisoners
• Lviv

The Every Animal NGO team has been promoting veganism practice and is engaged in creating a vegan movement in Ukraine (they set up training courses on veganism, organize street animal protection actions, etc.). Since the outbreak of the full-scale war, activists have been sending vegan field rations to male and female soldiers, feeding people with free vegan food in 10 cities of Ukraine, and holding charity festivals called Vegan Weekend.
On April 22, the next Vegan Weekend charity festival will take place in Kyiv. This time, it is dedicated to women at the frontline (currently, more than 60 thousand women are defending the country). The event’s goal is to raise 150,000 UAH for vegan military rations for the Ukrainian Defense Forces and the Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement or the needs of female defenders. Among other things, the event program includes interviews with female soldiers.

• food
• military
• volunteers
• Kyiv

The International Commission on Missing Persons started working in Ukraine. The organization identifies people who have gone missing as a result of armed conflicts or natural disasters. The DNA database of the ICMP includes 130,000 biological samples, in particular from Ukraine. With the support of the Media Initiative for Human Rights, the International Commission holds a series of meetings with the relatives of the missing in various cities of Ukraine. During those meetings, ICMP speakers talk about how to search for missing persons, collect and process data, as well as about the capabilities of the DNA laboratory in The Hague. In addition, the relatives of missing servicemen can submit DNA samples for identification.

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Lviv Defense Cluster manufactures light body armor and hands them over to the women in the military. Instead of the standard 20 kilograms, the body armor made by Lviv Defense Cluster weighs only 7-8 kilograms. Recently, female border guards serving in Kharkiv region received such bulletproof vests.

In addition, children’s protective kits featuring helmets and bulletproof vests, which are manufactured by Lviv Defense Cluster, are also in active use on the frontlines. For example, in Donetsk region, every crew of “White Angel” — local police officers who help to evacuate people — have children’s helmets and bulletproof vests made by Lviv Defense Cluster.

For reference: Lviv Defense Cluster unites specialists of defense enterprises, volunteers and production facilities from all over the country to provide the Defenders of Ukraine with high-quality and well tested body armor. The Cluster has its own laboratory for testing finished products.

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• military
• women

On April 21, Lviv will host the Armor Fest charity festival to raise UAH 1 million. The funds will be spent on purchasing ultralight body armor plates for Ukrainian paramedics who save the lives of soldiers in the most challenging areas of the frontline. The festival is organized by the VETERANKA Women’s Veteran Movement, which assists the defenders of Ukraine and people affected by the Russian invasion.

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• military
• women
• Lviv

The Books to the Front project is a Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine and the Cultural Forces Public Organization, headed by Ukrainian singer and soldier Kolya Sierga,  joint initiative. The project involves book collection and delivery for the military that are currently on the front line. The project aims to support Ukrainian defenders and provide them with an opportunity to distract themselves after a busy day of combat. Ukrainian bookstore retail chains have become partners of the initiative.

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• military