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Rustem Skybin is a Crimean Tatar artist who has established his own style of ceramics called “Quru Isar”, which means “dry barrier” in the Crimean Tatar language. Rustem was forced to leave his native Crimea in 2014 due to the Russian invasion. After moving to the capital, he found himself living in his car as he did not have his own home. Later, when life started improving, he opened a workshop. But in 2022, Russia tried to take everything away from him again, this time in Kyiv. The man volunteered and evacuated those who could not leave the city.  Then he began to counteract information warfare waged against Ukraine by organizing information resistance. He created a series of posters about cities that were under Russian occupation and a “museum of trophies,” i.e., things left behind after the Russians retreated. He opened the museum in a symbolic place – a toilet. Now the “museum” displays more than 50 exhibits, which are given to the artist by his friends from the front.

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• volunteers

Before the full-scale Russian invasion, Anastasiia Strokach had never done any repairs, let alone roof repairs. However, she was always keen on restoring things. In April 2022, Anastasiia joined the Dobrobat volunteer building division. At first, she got down to clearing the debris in the Kyiv region but later realized there was a lack of people who could repair roofs. Then Anastasiia overcame her fear of heights and now works in a team that repairs roofs mercilessly shattered by Russian shelling. 

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• volunteers
• women

Andrew was born in the U.S.A., but he has Ukrainian roots – two grandfathers from Lviv. By profession, he is a family physician. When russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, Andrew first provided medical aid to Ukrainian refugees in Poland as a volunteer. And later he became part of a team of medical and psychological care volunteers who help people at the railway station in Lviv. The man also teaches tactical medicine to his colleagues.

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• doctors
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• Lviv

The WOMAN AND WAR psychologists charity platform helps and supports women and children affected by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In that regard, specialists have developed various group therapies: those for mothers, for women abroad, for women who lost a loved one during the war, for military wives, and teenagers.

In 15 months, the team has assisted nearly 7000 women and children.

Journalists can talk to the charity platform psychologist, as well as to participants who have applied for help by prior arrangement. 

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• psychological support
• volunteers
• women

Before the start of the full-scale war, Kyiv-based organization CRAF was engaged in car tuning and preparing them for races. But after February 24, 2022, the team promptly changed the format of their work, and now they help the military camouflage everything: from cars and armored vehicles to helmets and assault rifles. CRAF paints each car according to their own methodology to hide it either in the field or in the forest. For more than a year of work, at least 900 cars were painted for Ukrainian defenders.

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• Kyiv

FRIDA Ukraine teams of doctors to leave for two missions that will be carried out simultaneously in the Donetsk and Sumy regions. For two days, doctors will conduct full outpatient appointments in regional communities.

25 doctors divided into teams will work in several settlements in Donetsk Oblast at the same time. The teams of surgeons, cardiologists, dermatologists, ophthalmologists, and other specialists. A team of 16 doctors is going on a mission to Sumy Oblast.

Journalists can join the team of medical volunteers during the planned missions. There is also an opportunity to cover the activities of FRIDA Ukraine and conduct interviews with the team without traveling to the hot spots.

Holding a pre-accreditated status is required.

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• doctors
• volunteers

Mykola Mohylevskyi, a 24-year-old volunteer from Fastiv, has been to the most dangerous places on the frontline during the full-scale invasion: Chasiv Yar, Bakhmut, Lyman, Soledar and Siversk. He took everyone he could persuade to evacuate to safe places. In addition to people, Mohylevskyi had to take out animals: dogs and even cows. Mykola goes to the front line every month. Now journalists can visit him in Fastiv, Kyiv region for conversation.

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• casualties
• volunteers
• Kyiv
• evacuation

Odesa “Workshop of Invincibility” volunteers repaired an old minibus turning it into a mobile barbershop for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It took the repair technicians a month to complete this “transformation.”  Now the minibus is a real barbershop on wheels: equipped with necessary furniture and even heated water.  Local barbers who had previously worked with the military joined the vehicle’s interior furnishing. Later, this mobile barbershop will be sent to the front.

Earlier, volunteers from Odesa made a buggy car and a mobile bathhouse for the defenders.

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• volunteers
• Odesa

Frankie and Coen, two well-known restaurant owners from the Netherlands, are visiting Ukraine for the twelfth time with their mobile restaurant. The men treat people with free French fries and snacks. During this trip, they will go around several Ukrainian cities. In particular, the volunteers will travel to Mykolaiv and Kherson to support people affected by the Kakhovka dam collapse. Later on, they will go to Donbas.  

Frankie and Coen also support orphanages and assist other humanitarian organizations in medicines and food package distribution in the frontline area. They also arrange hospital equipment transportation. 

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• food
• volunteers

Medical volunteers of FRIDA Ukraine will provide assistance to people in Kharkiv and Zaporizhia regions.

In Kharkiv oblast, 25 doctors will work in close proximity to the front line. The team includes: therapists, surgeons, pediatricians, dentists, urologists, ophthalmologists and other doctors.

A team of 20 doctors will also go on a mission to Zaporizhia region.

Journalists can join the volunteer medical team during scheduled missions. There is also an opportunity to cover the activities of FRIDA Ukraine and conduct interviews with the team without going to hot spots.

Accreditation is required. 

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