Themes by tag: russian crimes

On July 25, Media Center Ukraine – Ukrinform will hold a briefing entitled “Chemical weapons, biolaboratories and nuclear provocations: how russia lies about the health of Ukrainians — VoxCheck monitoring.” Over 1,800 news stories and posts with lies and propaganda about the health of Ukrainians were discovered by VoxCheck fact-checkers in cooperation with the USAID Health Reform Support Project in the information space of Ukraine, russia and Belarus from June 2022 to June 2023.

Participants:

• Olena Hlyvynska, USAID Health Reform Support Project (online);
• Svitlana Slipchenko, VoxCheck Project Manager (in person);
• Anayit Khoperiya, Head of the Department for Countering Information Threats to National Security at the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (in person);
• Mykola Balaban, Deputy Head at the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security (in person);
• Dzvenyslava Shcherba, Analyst and Journalist at Internews Ukraine NGO (in person).

• russian crimes
• Kyiv

The charity initiative “Save Beauty” is already working with civilians and military personnel who suffered from the russian aggression both in the rear and at the front. The project fully covers the costs of doctor’s consultations, examinations, surgeries and post-surgery procedures. After the plastic surgery, the team, together with doctors and psychologists, supports the patient over the course of their rehabilitation.

Journalists are invited to talk with doctors and, if possible, with patients who came for help.

• casualties
• russian crimes

On July 20, Top Lead content marketing agency’s study “Russia-Ukraine War: Environmental Impact” on the impact of russian armed aggression on Ukraine’s environment will be presented at a press conference. The topics of focus include: what are the damages to the environment from the full-scale war; what is Ukrainian business doing to overcome the consequences of ecocide; the problem of demining agricultural land, “green” recovery.

Participants:

• Stanislav Shum, CEO Top Lead;
• Oleksandr Krasnolutskyi, First Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine;
• Natalia Slobodian, Head of the Climate Change and Environment Protection Department, DTEK;
• Mykhailo Rizak, Director for Government Relations and Sustainable Development, NIBULON;

Pre-accreditation required.

• ecology
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

On July 20, journalists are invited to attend an event at the MeMariupol center in Kyiv, where the mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boichenko, will talk about the life of Mariupol residents during the year of occupation. He will also talk about the year of operation of MeMariupol centers, plans for the city’s rebuilding, and programs for Mariupol residents. The event will be attended by:

– Oksen Lisovyi, Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine 

– Étienne de Poncins, Ambassador of France to Ukraine 

– Donetsk Oblast Military Administration and Kyiv City State Administration leadership

– Borys Filatov, Mayor of Dnipro

– Serhii Morhunov, Mayor of Vinnytsia

The event will also be joined by Save the Children, World Central Kitchen, and the USAID Economic Support for Ukraine project representatives, which have been actively helping Mariupol residents return to life after the destruction of their city. In addition to the event’s guests, journalists will have the opportunity to talk to Mariupol residents who regularly visit the center.

Event accreditation is required.

• occupation
• russian crimes
• Kyiv
• Mariupol

On July 18-19, the International Forum of the Crimea Platform Expert Network ” Foreseeing the Future: Expert’s View” will be held in the capital. The speakers and participants at the forum will include leading experts from over 20 countries of the world.

Representatives of the Office of the President of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will take part in the event.

Ukraine’s victory in the war started by russia will usher in a new world order. In order to understand how to build a post-war global security configuration and establish an order based on the principles of international law, Ukrainian experts and human rights defenders initiated this forum.

The participants of the event will discuss the future architecture of world security and the security of the Black Sea region.

Pre-registration is required. 

• russian crimes
• Kyiv

Yuliia’s father, Serhii Khrypun, is a civilian who, at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, found himself under occupation in a village in Zaporizhia.  Serhii tried to leave the Russia-occupied territory many times, but having no passport, he was refused to pass through the checkpoints. Later, the family found out Russia had taken Serhii prisoner. Yuliia collected bits of information about her father from the military, who were released through exchanges. In September 2022, the girl received the last news from her father, a letter in which Serhii wrote that they were being treated well in captivity. However, Yuliia talked to those who had seen her father. From them, she learned that the man was subjected to electrical torture and was forced to sing the Russian anthem for six hours a day.

Together with other relatives of the prisoners, Yuliia created the NGO Civilians in Captivity. They contact all possible organizations to find out where and under what conditions their loved ones are taken captive.

• prisoners
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

Nataliia Sosmii, a cadet of the Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv National Air Force University, faced the Russian invasion in Kherson. In the first months of the occupation, she rode her bike around the city and passed information about the Russians to the Ukrainian soldiers she possessed. In late August, Nataliia decided to leave Kherson. But the flight was postponed, and 30 armed Russians broke into the cadet’s house. Natalia’s home was searched, and she was taken to a temporary detention center there. There, she was beaten and psychologically pressured: in particular, her 16-year-old daughter was threatened with rape. “They said that they would take me to Donbas and let me go towards the Ukrainian military to be shot by Ukrainian soldiers. I said that I would rather be killed by my people rather than die here,” the cadet recalls.

Nataliia also heard how her classmate Oleksandr was being tortured. To save him, she agreed to take part in the recording of a Russian propaganda video. Nataliia has left Kherson and is safe and ready to talk to the media.

• prisoners
• russian crimes
• women

One of Save Ukraine’s centers, the Good Samaritan House of Mercy, operates in the Lviv region. It takes care of people with limited mobility who suffered due to Russian aggression. Most of them are older adults unable to take care of themselves.

The Save Ukraine team evacuated these people from the dangerous area in time, and now they are safe and well-housed. 

• casualties
• russian crimes
• Lviv

14-year-old Taisiia cannot fully engage in her favorite activity – drawing, because there is no bomb shelter in her art school. The institution is located in Saltivka (Kharkiv district, which suffered greatly as a result of russia’s full-scale invasion). The shelling even caused school windows to shatter. Currently, they are planning to auction off drawings, the money will be used to set up the bomb shelter.

The shelter will allow children to work offline and return to in-person communication.

After the victory, the students of the school plan to use the shelter as a gallery in the future.

• children
• russian crimes
• Kharkiv

The international organization “The Halo Trust” had been helping to demine the territory of Ukraine even before the start of the full-scale invasion. Currently, 800 Ukrainians are involved in mine clearing efforts in 5 regions: Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Kyiv and Chernihiv. “The Halo Trust” also works at the sites of flooding caused by the breach of the Kakhovka Dam. In the last eight weeks alone, sappers discovered more than 5,000 mines in Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions.

The international organization “The Halo Trust” surveys recently liberated Ukrainian lands, using the methodology tested in more than 30 countries of the world.

For reference: According to the State Emergency Service, 30% of the territory of Ukraine is mined. According to some assessments, it may take more than 10 years to clear the land.

• russian crimes
• Chernihiv
• Kharkiv
• Kyiv
• Mykolaiv
• Sumy