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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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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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• volunteers

On June 16, a veterinary clinic and a shelter for animals, founded by actor Oleksii Surovtsev, will be officially opened in Irpin. Ukrainian celebrities will attend the opening. Among other things, it will be possible to take a look at cats rescued from Kherson region.

Background: Famous Ukrainian actor Oleksii Surovtsev has been rescuing animals since the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion. (In Kyiv region, he was evacuating pets from shelled areas). Recently, the man went to Kherson region to save animals that suffered as a result of the occupiers’ blowing up of the Kakhovka HPP.

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• volunteers
• Kyiv

Tetyana Marina, the wife of the Spanish citizen Mariano García Calatayud, who was kidnapped in Kherson, is seeking the release of her husband from russian captivity. Mario is a well-known volunteer who has been living in Ukraine since 2014. On March 19, 2022, the Spaniard was kidnapped by the russians. Since that time, the wife has received only one confirmation from the military prosecutor’s office of the Black Sea Fleet that her husband has been detained, but there is no information in which pre-trial detention center he is being held. Tetyana assumes that Mario is in Crimea, because that is where the reply came from.

For reference: Currently, there are more than 22,000 civilians held hostage in russia and the temporarily occupied territories. 

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• volunteers

“Dental Front is a charity project of the Association of Implantologists of Ukraine, assisting dental clinics and specialists in the field. Recently, the first dental readiness and oral health clinic for military service in Ukraine was opened in the Lviv region. It will provide free dental services, ensuring mobilized soldiers medical readiness prior to deployment. Later, similar clinics will be opened in Kyiv and Dnipro Oblasts (in general, the project will be implemented in all regions).

For reference: the project website states that every 3rd soldier has a dental problem. Because of this, soldiers experience great discomfort and often suffer from unbearable pain when they get to the front.

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• military
• volunteers
• Lviv

Building Ukraine Together (BUR) is creating a base of hosts from its community, who are ready to shelter people affected by the occupiers’ blowing up of the Kakhovka HPP. The volunteers will transfer the collected contact database to partner organizations that are directly involved in evacuating and finding accommodation for the victims.

Journalists are invited to learn more about this initiative and, if possible, talk to a volunteer who has already been included into the contact database and is ready to provide shelter for victims.

For reference: Building Ukraine Together is an NGO that creates opportunities for young people to bring about changes in the country through volunteering.

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