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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.

• culture
• occupation
• Lviv

Mykhailo Ivonin, an entrepreneur from Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast occupied by russians, designed a modular home for IDPs that can be erected without a crane. Also, it needs no finish inside and outside. In Luhansk Oblast, Mykhailo Ivonin owned a research and design institute. Due to hostilities, he had to leave his home for Kamianets-Podilskyi in Khmelnytskyi Oblast.

Now, Mykhailo Ivonin’s factory employs six IDPs from Sievierodonetsk. They produced the first modular home to accommodate their company’s office.

• occupation
• reconstruction
• Khmelnytskyi

A family of IDPs from Donetsk Oblast opened a family bakery in Dnipro. They have had to leave their home twice because of russia’s aggression. In 2014, they left occupied Horlivka; this year, they had to leave Toretsk. Now, they bring bread and buns baked in their new bakery there. It is impossible to bake bread in Toretsk anymore because there is no water, no electricity, and no gas. However, there are still people in this city on the front line who wait for fresh bread.

The IDPs said they had planned to open one more bakery in March – in Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast. They even installed equipment there. However, they lost their property when the city was bombarded by artillery and then occupied by the russian forces.

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• occupation
• volunteers
• Dnipro

The presenter of the morning radio show helps retirees in Kyiv region, in particular, in the settlements affected by the russian occupation. To do this, the woman founded “Yulia’s Grannies” Charitable Foundation. One of the main Foundation’s activities is care for the elderly and lonely people. Recently the Foundation’s team visited Hornostaipil geriatrics center for the elderly and people with disabilities. The foundation delivered food there. Yulia is sure that for lonely old elderly there are no cooler grandchildren than Ukrainians who want to help.

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• occupation
• volunteers
• Kyiv

Iryna Dubchenko rescued a wounded Ukrainian serviceman in the village of Rozivka, Zaporizhia oblast, where the active combat started at the beginning of March. Then Ukrainian forces were forced to retreat. Iryna found out that one of the wounded, Serhiy from the Aidar Battalion, had been left in a village house without heating and food.

Iryna took care of the military man and planned to take him to Zaporizhia, pretending to be a couple. However, they did not have time to implement the plan: the soldiers in uniforms with the inscriptions of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic came to Irina. That’s how the journalist and the soldier were taken prisoner. The woman was released in early April. Now Iryna lives in Zaporizhia and is waiting for the deoccupation of her home village.

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• occupation

First respondents from Lviv region demined settlements of Kyiv region liberated from the occupiers. Experts say they looked for explosives in enemy trenches, forests and detached houses with the permission of the owners. Among other things, they found missiles and mines that hadn’t exploded. For example, more than ten thousand munitions were neutralized in one small area.

• occupation
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

Bucha is a city in Kyiv Oblast that has been greatly affected by the russian occupation. Almost 2,000 residential properties, including almost 1,500 single-family houses, were damaged or destroyed. On June 24, Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland, and Oleksiy Chernyshov, Ukraine’s Minister of Communities and Territories Development, opened a modular camp for 352 residents in the hero city of Bucha. It accommodates residents of Bucha and neighboring cities. There are plans for building three camps like this one to accommodate 704 residents.

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• occupation
• Kyiv

Kristina has lived under occupation in Melitopol in Zaporizhia Oblast for over two months. Together with her mom, the girl took part in protests and saw with her own eyes that russian military personnel threatened, beat up, and kidnapped people. It took her one day and a half to get to Zaporizhia from the occupied city of Melitopol.

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• occupation
• russian crimes

In Kyiv Oblast, walking tours are organized in the towns that became victims of the russian invasion. Tour participants can visit interesting locations in Irpin, Bucha, and Borodianka and see the consequences of destruction with their own eyes. A walking tour costs UAH 150 per person.

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• occupation
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

In May 2022, actors and directors of Mariupol Drama Theater found refuge in Zakarpattia Music and Drama Theater. They are currently working on the first full-fledged production in the evacuation, a play about the life of Ukrainian writer Vasyl Stus.

Employees of the Mariupol Theater were provided with housing in a dormitory in Uzhhorod.

By way of background information: on March 16, 2022, the russians launched an air strike on the building of Mariupol Drama Theater, which civilians were using as a bomb shelter. Several hundred Mariupol residents were killed in the air strike. After capturing the city, the russian invaders cleared the rubble of the theater, and the dead were buried in a mass grave marked with numbers instead of names.

• culture
• occupation
• russian crimes
• Uzhhorod