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Odesa National Fine Art Museum resumes its work after being hit by a russian missile. On December 15, an Open Day will be held there. Journalists are welcome to cover the press conference.

For reference, on November 6, 2023, the museum planned to celebrate its 124th anniversary. A day before the festivities, the russian rocket hit the area close to the museum. The shock wave damaged the administration building, and the exhibition halls were also damaged. Experts set about fixing the consequences of the damage, and the museum was closed to visitors.

• culture
• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• Odesa

Mykhailo Puryshev is an entrepreneur from Mariupol. At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Mykhailo brought humanitarian aid to besieged Mariupol and evacuated Mariupol residents from the russian-blocked city. After the de-occupation of Kharkiv region, Mykhailo was one of the first volunteers to bring humanitarian aid to Izyum, Kupyansk, and Kivsharivka.

After months of providing aid in hot spots, Mykhailo and his team decided that the support should be comprehensive: people living under constant shelling, in dark basements, without communication, without healthcare and shops, without electricity and water, need a place where they can get everything they need. Therefore, Invincibility Centers were set up in seven settlements near the front line. The first three centers were built in Bakhmut until the city was razed to the ground and occupied by the russians. Then such centers were built in Orikhiv, Huliaipole, Kherson, Avdiivka and Vuhledar. In the Invincibility Centers, people can use electricity for the first time in many months, eat hot food, receive humanitarian and medical aid, wash clothes and take a shower. In addition, they can watch Ukrainian television, instead of listening to russian radio in the basements. And thanks to Starlink, they have an Internet connection to call their relatives. In some places, a team of volunteers even drilled wells, so that local residents could have access to water.

In addition, the volunteers noticed that the defenders coming from advanced frontline positions have nowhere to wash their dirty clothes and repair them for free. Hence, the idea of setting up laundry facilities for the military emerged. The first such facility has already started working in Kostyantynivka, the second one opened in Kurakhove in Donetsk region. Ukrainian defenders can bring clothes to the center, and they will be washed, dried and even repaired free of charge.

The team plans to equip such laundry centers along the entire front line. So that defenders don’t have to look for a place to wash clothes and can rest while the volunteers do it.

Mykhailo recently experienced a second heart attack and artery stenting, but despite this he returned to volunteering.

Journalists are welcome to communicate with Mykhailo and his Unbroken team both offline and online, as well as cover the work of volunteers.

• casualties
• reconstruction
• volunteers

On December 14, the first UKRAINIAN CONSTRUCTION CONGRESS will be held in Kyiv, during which participants will discuss the Formula for the Reconstruction of Ukraine.

The event will become a platform for a constructive exchange of views between the authorities, developers, architects, builders, manufacturers of building materials, the civil society and other players in the industry. An important issue to be considered at the congress will deal with the problem of the return of Ukrainians from abroad, without whom the renewal of Ukraine is impossible.

The program of the event will consist of discussion panels, speeches and presentations by experts from various fields.

Mykhailo Podolyak, Adviser to the Head of the President’s Office, and Rostyslav Karandieiev, acting Minister of Culture and Information Policy, will give a welcome speech at the event.

Other topics to be discussed at the event include:

• Architecture Education. Destruction or misunderstanding of the reconstruction needs?
• Innovations and their impact on business development;
• Promising investments in the future reconstruction of Ukraine;
• Technology for future recovery as a tool for Ukraine’s modernization;
• Money for housing. Sources of income 2024: investments, sales, mortgage;
• City without borders: relevant examples and actions towards a barrier-free environment;
• Sustainable City: transforming Ukraine by transforming cities.

• reconstruction
• Kyiv

On December 9, the Brave to Rebuild project volunteers will visit the owners of the houses they helped to restore (in particular by clearing the rubble, repairing damaged houses, and laying communications) in the Kyiv region.

The Brave Little Santas initiative will be taken at Irpin, Bucha, Horenka, and Hostomel to pay a visit to about two dozen families.

Volunteers have already bought gifts. These include, for example, power banks, blankets, shoes, and much more.

By prior arrangement, journalists are able to cover the “Brave Little Santas” visits. 

For reference: This year, Ukraine celebrates St. Nicholas Day for the first time according to the Revised Julian calendar on December 6.

• casualties
• reconstruction
• volunteers
• Kyiv

On December 5, in Kyiv, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine and the All-Ukrainian Association for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, together with the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) (Paris, France) will hold a forum on the topic: ” Rebuilding and Restoring the Cultural Heritage of Ukraine after the Big War.” The forum will be held under the auspices of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) with headquarters in Rome. Rostyslav Karandieiev, acting First Deputy Minister of Culture and Information Policy will participate in the event.

The main goal of the event is to develop a strategy for the restoration of cultural heritage, which will take into account both the positions of the state and the professional community. As part of the event, experts from Croatia and Poland will share their experience in restoring monuments and cultural objects

Journalists are welcome to learn more about the participants of the forum and cover this event.

For reference: According to the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, 835 cultural heritage objects were destroyed or damaged as a result of russia’s full-scale aggression in the period from February 24, 2022 to September 25, 2023. Of them, 118 are monuments of national significance, 653 are of local significance, and 64 are newly discovered.

• culture
• reconstruction
• Kyiv

Viktoriia Zahreba has been engaged in a youth sports tourism job. When the full-scale war began, the frontline shifted to Viktoriia’s village in Zaporizhia Oblast. The woman acknowledged that there was no reliable shelter in the village and decided to create one. Viktoriia found a school basement where coal used to be stored. The basement needed to be cleaned up, so she turned to the Ukrainian Women’s Fund for support, applied for a grant, and won. The Foundation provided assets and the villagers got down to modern shelter equipment. It was opened in March 2023 and can accommodate 60 people.

The shelter also serves as a safe environment for leisure, where training and events in psychology, mine safety, psycho-emotional support for children, and women’s leadership are held.

• reconstruction
• women
• Zaporizhzhia

December 3 marks the 301st birth anniversary of the philosopher and prominent Ukrainian Hryhorii Skovoroda. In honor of the holiday, the National Literary and Memorial Museum of Hryhorii Skovoroda, damaged by a Russian missile hit, is launching a collection called “301 True Friends of Skovoroda.” Anyone can contribute to the restoration and preservation of the museum by donating funds, setting up a mini fundraising event on their social media pages, or, for example, collecting books and paintings for the museum’s holdings. 

On May 6, 2022, the museum’s premises suffered a blow by a Russian artillery strike. The shockwave damaged the nineteenth-century storeroom and the Manager’s House, which are important components of the museum complex. The explosion caused a large-scale fire that scorched 280 square meters of the building. A statue of Hryhorii Skovoroda survived the recoil attack.

For reference: The museum is located on the territory of the Memorial Complex of the philosopher and poet Hryhorii Skovoroda in the Kharkiv region. The space has the status of a historical monument of national importance. There is also a grave of Hryhorii Skovoroda on the territory.

• culture
• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• Kharkiv

The official opening of the learning ‘mini hub’ in the liberated Rudnytske village in Kyiv Oblast will be held On November 30. The settlement was severely damaged during the occupation of the region in the spring of 2022: private houses were utterly destroyed, and the school and other infrastructure facilities were smashed up. The children, eventually, had no place to study, attend after-school clubs, or just get together.

Thanks to the grant and philanthropists, we managed to create a hub where teachers can give lectures, the youth can organize their leisure time, and children can stay online to do their homework in case the power is out.

Event prior accreditation is required.

For reference: The learning ‘mini hub’ in Rudnytske in the Kyiv region, was created by the MHP-Gromadi Foundation with the support of ISAR Ednannia as part of the Ukraine Civil Society Sectoral Support Activity project.

• casualties
• children
• occupation
• reconstruction
• Kyiv

Heorhii and Olha Chervienkovs founded a cannery in Posad-Pokrovske, Kherson region, 9 years ago. Before the full-scale invasion began, the plant’s output was more than 100 tons of canned goods per month. When the start of the full-scale invasion started in 2022, the russians occupied Kherson region and destroyed almost all the villages on the front line.

Heorhii and Olha found out that their cannery had been destroyed already after the de-occupation of their town and their return home. Entrepreneurs set to work and six months after the de-occupation, Heorhii and Olha managed to launch the first production line. At first, they had to use power generators to work, and there was a shortage of workers, as some employees had joined the army or left the community. Currently, the couple is working to return the plant to its pre-war capacity.

• occupation
• reconstruction
• Kherson

The B50 community was formed in the very first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Its future founders gathered near one of the Territorial Defense Forces headquarters, which had a secret address, B50, whence the community’s name followed. Since the Ukrainian forces have liberated the Kyiv region, B50 volunteers were among the first to join the cleanup and debris removal in Bucha, Irpin, Vorzel, and Hostomel. As of April 2022, the B50 community has been dispatching visiting missions to the de-occupied towns and villages of the Kyiv region every week to deal with cleanup activities of homes destroyed by the occupiers. In addition to debris removal, since 2023, the community’s volunteers have been restoring the children’s libraries funds in the frontline and de-occupied territories, reconstructing and decorating children’s bomb shelters, and helping animal shelters affected by the hostile invasion.

For reference: The B50 volunteers community is ready to have conversations with journalists, both online and offline. You can join the community missions every weekend.

• animals
• reconstruction
• volunteers