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Leading plastic surgeons offer free surgeries to people who got scarred due to the war in Ukraine. The surgeons call their campaign #NoScar

People injured because of fighting and requiring reconstructive surgery are invited to contact plastic surgeons participating in the campaign. They only have to send their photograph and a description of their injury.

These are the Facebook pages of surgeons who have already joined the campaign:
https://www.facebook.com/denys.yurchenko.7
https://www.facebook.com/dr.vrublivskyi/

By way of background information: According to the UN data, 4,654 Ukrainian civilians were injured because of russia’s all-out invasion as of May 24.

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About 40 people still live in a bomb shelter on the outskirts of Chernihiv. These people’s homes were destroyed completely or partly. Some of them fear that bombs can start falling again.

Residents of the bomb shelter said they visit their ruined homes during the day to clean up, but return to the basement every night.

By way of background information: According to Chernihiv authorities, 1,500 private homes and 10,000 apartments were destroyed completely, and 37,000 more were damaged in the course of active fighting in the city.

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People who lost their homes due to the russian invasion can find temporary shelter in a modular camp in Bucha, Kyiv Oblast. The houses are being installed now and will provide shelter for 350 people soon. Every unit has a kitchen and a canteen, toilets and shower rooms. In rooms, there are beds for 4 people and the necessary furniture. Poland provided these housing units under the #PolandFirstToHelp program.

By way of background information: On April 2, Kyiv Oblast was liberated from russian forces. Numerous killings of civilians were recorded in the liberated towns and villages. It is especially valid for Bucha, where at least 400 people were killed. According to Bucha’s mayor Anatolii Fedoruk, 22 apartment blocks in the city were damaged, two of them beyond repair. Also, 243 private homes suffered so much damage that they had to be demolished.

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Over 80 rescue workers, who worked under occupation in Chornobyl, have recently returned to work. These people did not leave their stations after russians had occupied the territory. Instead, the rescue workers controlled the area to ensure that nothing bad happened at the ChNPP site and responded to fires. All the time, these men worked while held at gunpoint by russians.

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More than 1,000 people wounded in active fighting areas are treated in Lviv’s medical institutions. Trains with wounded people arrive in Lviv almost every day. They bring in people with mine-blast injuries who have no arms or legs; they often do not have relatives. City authorities send the wounded people for medical treatment abroad in cooperation with foreign clinics. Also, the city council launches a large-scale Nezlamni (The Unbroken) project aiming to build a National Rehabilitation Center. This work has been going on for over a month now. The goal is to build a center that will be the first of its kind in the world. It will provide prosthetics, rehabilitation, socialization, and psychological support thousands of Ukrainians need now.

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Kharkiv Metro railway, whose stations offered shelter from shelling to hundreds of people after the commencement of fighting, resumes its operation. People living at the stations will have to be resettled to shared hostels. Some people with nowhere to live because their homes were destroyed have already been provided hostel beds. However, some of these people are afraid of leaving the Metro and unwilling to move. 

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Oleksandra, 82 years old, and her daughter Vira spend nights together with their dog and cat in a shed near their house destroyed by the russian army. The ladies sell potatoes to buy bread. Unfortunately, all their clothes remained under the building debris. When Ukrainian journalists told their story, people from all over Ukraine started sending aid to the old ladies and raising funds for them. Iryna Vereshchuk, Minister for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, also paid interest in their story. However, the ladies still have no home. 

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Over 20,000 Ukrainians from various cities have already joined Dobrobat, a charity volunteering project. These people with different skills help Ukraine’s Emergency Response Service for free. They carry out searches and clear debris of buildings ruined by the russian army. They also started rebuilding the damaged settlements. Dobrobat’s volunteers work currently in Kyiv Oblast—in Bucha, Irpin, Vorzel, Hostomel, and Borodianka. They play to start working in the liberated areas of Chernihiv and Sumy Oblasts.

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On May 15, specialists of Ukraine’s Navy extracted and neutralized two russian anchored mines. It was reported by the press department of the South Operational Command. These two mines were washed ashore in Odesa Oblast.

According to the Ukrainian Institute of Black Sea Strategic Studies, russians planted about 400 anchored mines in the Black Sea and accused Ukraine of having done so. Some mines broke off from their anchors and drifted to the coasts of Romania and Bulgaria in late March.

On March 26, the Turkish government was forced to stop vessel traffic in Bosporus Strait after detecting a stray old-model sea mine. The press department of the Turkish Navy stated that russia’s invasion of Ukraine affects the safety in the Black Sea region directly and has effectively paralyzed the free navigation of all Black Sea countries.

According to Odesa Oblast Military Administration, the holiday season in the region has already been disrupted due to mines planted at sea. It affects the region’s economy directly.

In addition, russia’s Black Sea Navy blocks the Ukrainian seaports.

According to Serhii Bratchuk, spokesperson for Odesa Oblast Military Administration, it creates problems not only for Ukraine but also for the international economy.  For instance, the termination of grain deliveries from Odesa’s seaport to the Middle East and North Africa can give rise to a food crisis in the affected countries.

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