Themes by tag: russian crimes

In Kyiv region, volunteers of “Zoopatrol” NGO are planning a trip to Kherson region to help the evacuated people and their pets. (The date of the trip is yet to be determined). Currently, volunteers help by providing information and coordination, as well as raising funds for the victims.

In Lviv, a team of volunteers from “Home of Rescued Animals” charity foundation is also planning a humanitarian mission to Kherson.

• animals
• russian crimes
• Kherson

The team of the World Central Kitchen charity organization is feeding people who are forced to evacuate from flooded areas due to the explosion of the Kakhovka HPP dam. In particular, they work in Kherson region, Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhia.

For reference: WCK has been working in Ukraine since the first days of russia’s full-scale invasion. In general, this organization funds and provides products to create food kits in countries and regions experiencing humanitarian, climate or man-made crises.

• casualties
• food
• russian crimes
• Kherson
• Zaporizhzhia

Journalists can contact the Media Center Ukraine Producer Department to get contacts to official services (police, rescuers, etc.) in Kherson and the Oblast.

• russian crimes
• Kherson

The Dnipro city is preparing to welcome the victims of the occupiers’ explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant and to resettle them in shelters. Those affected will be provided with food and other necessities.

Journalists can look firsthand at the preparatory process to receive people underway. 

For reference: Charitable organization «Charitable Fund: Revival of Ukraine!» and the “Institute for the Promotion of Public Initiatives” Public organization are helping the victims.

• casualties
• russian crimes
• volunteers
• Dnipro
• Kherson

Experts are calculating the ecosystem damage caused by Russia blowing up the Kakhovka dam. The Center for Environmental Initiatives Ecoaction (Ecodia) is ready to share contacts of English-speaking experts who can comment on these issues.

• ecology
• russian crimes
• Kherson
• Kyiv

On June 1, at 12:30 PM, “Ukraine 5 AM Coalition” will hold a press conference entitled: “Ukrainian children under russian control: how to protect their rights and future?”

During the event, the participants will discuss: the current situation with the abduction of Ukrainian children by the russians, specific cases of such crimes, attempts by the russian occupiers to “re-educate” Ukrainian children and destroy their identity, etc.

Participants:

• Onysiia Syniuk – legal analyst at ZMINA Center for Human Rights;
• Valentyna Potapova – Head for National Advocacy in Education at Almenda Civic Education Center;
• Kseniia Korniienko – lawyer at the Regional Center for Human Rights;
• Anastasiia Pantelieieva – Head of the Documentation Department at the Media Initiative for Human Rights;
• Ievgeniia Kapalkina – lawyer at Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group.

For reference:

“Ukraine 5 AM Coalition” started working on February 25, 2022, the day after russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today, 34 NGOs and four individual experts are united in the Coalition. They combined their efforts to systematically document war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the russian armed aggression against Ukraine.

• children
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

On June 2, the Center for Civil Liberties, an organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize, invites journalists to a press conference on the russian federation’s crimes against media workers since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

Participants: Sergiy Tomilenko, Head of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine; Svitlana Ostapa, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Detector Media, Head of the Supervisory Board of Suspilne; Serhiy Movchan, Head of the War Crimes Documentation Department of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU); Anna Popova, Project Manager of the Center for Civil Liberties. Moderator: Oleksandra Romantsova, Executive Director at the Center for Civil Liberties.

The following topics will be discussed during the press conference:

• Is it possible to name the exact number of media workers who died while performing their work duties?
• How many journalists and other media workers died while serving in the military?
• How do the occupiers destroy newsrooms and broadcasting facilities, such as TV and radio towers?
• How often do media workers take the side of the enemy and become collaborators?

• russian crimes
• Kyiv

On May 31, the European Union diplomats delegation will visit Kyiv City Clinical Hospital No. 8. The delegation includes: Heidi Alasepp, Vice Chancellor of the Health Department of the Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia, and Lauri Luht, Head of the Eastern Partnership, representative of the Estonian Center for International Development.

During their visit, the honored guests will meet with Professor and Head of the Expert Council of the #SavetheLimb National Program Mykola Ankin and President of the Health of the Ukrainian People Foundation Serhiy Soshynskiy.

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• russian crimes

The independent volunteer art collective Spilka started drilling a well in the village of Korolivka, Makariv district, Kyiv Oblasts, on May 30. This village was heavily damaged during the fighting in February-March 2022. The drilling of the well is one of the stages of the project to help the village community: the hospital reconstruction, partially damaged by explosions, was the project’s first phase. Another stage will be constructing a bomb shelter at the Korolivka Lyceum. Currently, students cannot attend the institution having no shelter.

For reference: Spilka is an independent volunteer collective of artists based in New York, Paris and Kyiv. Spilka’s activities are focused on raising funds through artistic, cultural and sporting events in the cities of its main base.

• culture
• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• volunteers
• Kyiv

Heavily damaged during the fighting, Irpin’s private sector is under comprehensive reconstruction. The area suffered most from constant artillery shelling and air strikes carried by the Russian military. More than 60 families who lost their homes could finally move back into their own homes by the end of this year. The houses will be restored at the expense of local and regional budgets, as well as the UN Refugee Agency. The agency is providing more than $2 million in construction materials. In addition to the houses, public works aim to complete street repairs. 

For reference: In February-March 2022, Irpin city in the Kyiv region became the main battlefield during the Russian offensive against the capital. Russian invaders occupied a third of the city, and it was here that the Ukraine Armed Forces and the Territorial Defense Forces managed to defeat the Russians. Over 300 civilians were killed in the fighting, and thousands have become homeless. In particular, one of the city’s neighborhoods (described above) was almost completely destroyed, including by Russian air bombs.

• occupation
• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• Kyiv