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The primary task of “Dobrobat” is to quickly restore damaged buildings by covering the destroyed roof, repairing broken windows, and reinforcing damaged walls. “Dobrobat” volunteers are rebuilding residential blocks and detached houses, schools, outpatient clinics and infrastructure facilities.

Branches of the volunteer movement are located in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions. And more than 40,000 people applied to join the ranks of “Dobrobat” including the residents of those areas where “Dobrobat” helps with reconstruction, and people from other regions, in particular, from currently occupied territories. Some foreigners joined the volunteer initiative as well.

For reference: Since the beginning of April, “Dobrobat” members have helped over 1,650 families whose homes were damaged. In particular, roofs were restored in more than 160 houses, windows were repaired in 95. More than 50 social infrastructure objects were rebuilt. In addition, they helped to clear the rubble of destroyed housing and clean the territory of infrastructure facilities.

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Kharkiv rescuers have been actively helping builders to restore and repair high-rise buildings damaged by the occupiers since the summer.

Only yesterday they were involved in the work twice. Engineering works with the help of rescue equipment were carried out on a 9-story residential building in Pivnichna Saltivka district in Kharkiv and an 8-story administrative building. With the help of equipment and tools, climbers and rescuers dismantled damaged structures so that builders could replace them with new ones.

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• reconstruction

In Myrotske village, Buchanskyi district of Kyiv region, the works are under way to restore residential buildings and the cultural center damaged as a result of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “The roof was replaced; now heat insulation of the attic floor and replacement of windows is carried out. In total, 4 multi-apartment residential buildings will be restored,” Anatolii Fedoruk, the Bucha Mayor, reported.

For reference: Myrotske village is located near Bucha and Hostomel. It was under occupation for more than a month (in particular, in early March, the russian military shelled the village, with the consequence that houses of local residents were destroyed and damaged). After de-occupation, two mass graves were found near the village.

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• Kyiv
• reconstruction

On January 6, at 10:00 AM, Kyiv residents will again gather for communal works in Protasiv Iar. It will be required to help wrap in film the private house that was damaged during the December 31 shelling.

For reference: On December 31, russia launched strikes on the territory of Ukraine and, in particular, on Kyiv. The residents have already gathered for communal works several times and together cleaned up the aftermath of russian missiles hitting.

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• Kyiv
• reconstruction
• volunteers

In the morning of January 4, Kyiv residents will gather for communal works in one of districts of the capital city. They will clean up at the site of enemy shelling (in the afternoon of December 31, russia launched a missile attack on the territory of Ukraine, including Kyiv).

For reference: On January 3, the first day of communal works took place (it was organized through the Telegram channel). About fifty concerned people sorted out the rubble and loaded garbage. Utility companies also worked on the site.

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• Kyiv
• reconstruction
• volunteers

About 3,000 people are employed as part of the “Recovery Army” project, which aims to involve unemployed Ukrainians in community service. This project is already being implemented in seven oblasts: Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Donetsk, Poltava, Rivne, and Zaporizhia.

The project allows unemployed Ukrainians to get paid for taking part in clearing rubble and rebuilding war-damaged housing, helping with gathering firewood for the military and the population. They can also unload or pack humanitarian aid, provide social services at Points of Invincibility, etc.

Currently, the largest number of unemployed people involved is in Sumy region, amounting to 725 individuals. Journalists can take a look at how the project is being implemented in practice.

• reconstruction
• Sumy

Natalia Mykolaivna from the village of Lukashivka in Chernihiv region lost her home at the beginning of the full-scale war (during the first days of the russian occupation of the village). However, BUR volunteers together with Repair Together team managed to build a house from scratch for Natalia Mykolaivna. Currently, the activists from BUR are doing interior repairs, and journalists have the opportunity to film this process.

If more people join the volunteers of BUR, Ms. Natalia’s family will be able to move into their new home by Christmas.

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• Chernihiv
• reconstruction
• volunteers

At the end of March, the village of Rudnytske in Kyiv region was liberated from the russian military. For more than a month, the settlement had continuously been targeted by russian artillery. As a result, dozens of houses were destroyed or seriously damaged.

In the summer, several charitable foundations combined their efforts to help 8 local residents, whose homes were affected the most, spend the winter in warm and undamaged houses. The project costing UAH 900,000 was called the “Phoenix of Rudnytske,” because some buildings were literally rebuilt from the ashes.

On December 13, a symbolic “housewarming party” will take place in some houses of Rudnytske village in Kyiv region: the initiators of the “Phoenix of Rudnytske” project will visit renovated houses and present gifts to their owners. Journalists will be able to talk to local residents who rebuilt their homes from the ruins, ask about life after the occupation and learn about the reconstruction of the settlement.

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• Kyiv
• reconstruction

The first school in Ukraine, created using 3D printing technologies, is to be built in Lviv. The work was planned to start in October this year, but due to the massive shelling of Ukrainian cities, the decision was made to postpone the delivery of the 3D printer and the arrival of foreign specialists who work with it. Construction is now scheduled for spring.

It will take about a month to print this one-story building. The start of work is planned for the first warm days of spring, which are favorable for work with concrete. 99% of the materials that will be used in construction are of local origin.

• Lviv
• reconstruction

Specialists of “MykolaVvodokanal” have already started the work to restore the supply of drinking water to the city. There was practically no drinking water in Mykolaiv since the beginning of the full-scale war. Teams of utility workers are working on sites where the 73-km long pipeline burst. They found 4 places of damage. Some of the damage looks as if the pipe was deliberately fired upon from tanks, the city says. The utility workers themselves tell how “MykolaivVodokanal” is restoring the supply of water to the city after the liberation of Kherson.

• Mykolaiv
• reconstruction
• russian crimes