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Mykolaiv has already installed 4 concrete shelters for city residents. There they will be able to hide during air-raid warnings. Shelters are reinforced, properly certified and can protect against debris or a blast wave. Each of them is designed for 15 seats for short-term stays.

In addition, Vitaly Gidevan and Elena Noina, the known Kyiv artists, painted the walls of shelters to make them look more attractive.

• volunteers
• Mykolaiv

Andriy Danylko (the artist also goes by the nickname Verka Serduchka) decided to sell the Silver Shadow Rolls-Royce of the year 1974 by the Sotheby’s auction. It was the car that Freddie Mercury drove until the last days of his life. Danylko will donate all the proceeds to construction of a rehabilitation center in Ukraine. The auction will be held on November 5 in London. Earlier, the artist had bought this legendary car to present it to the Queen Museum or make it a part of a large exhibition in Ukraine, but now he decided to invest in the country’s future.

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• Kyiv

The host of the morning radio show helps pensioners in the Kyiv region. In particular, in localities affected by russian occupation. For this purpose, the girl founded the Charitable Foundation “Yulia’s Grannies”. One of the main activities of the Foundation is guardianship of the elderly and single people. Now the fund has five employees who regularly go to nursing homes in the Kyiv region, bring aid and just communicate with grannies and grandpas.

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• occupation
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• Kyiv

Keep Going, the Ukrainian project, provides financial support to Ukrainians who move the victory closer, and tells their stories. In particular, now they help raise funds for an engraving machine for Kateryna Uvarova from the Kharkiv region who makes and sells accessories from shot casings. They also help raise money to purchase a refrigerator for flowers for Oksana Dubyk, a migrant from Mariupol, who together with two countrywomen established a flower shop in Lviv.

Among the Keep Going’s achievements: 600,000 hryvnias raised for Oleksandr Kryvosheia, the farmer from Kyiv region, who in March brought Ukrainian artillery to his own warehouse captured by russians. Those who received support include also Oleksandr Shchelokov, the owner of Mi-Lo-Ko Craft Cheese Factory in Kyiv region. In farms where he procured milk, goats were killed during missile attacks.

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Kseniya Draganuk, presenter and journalist, initiated the “Countrywomen” project to tell the world about incredible Ukrainian women. After a full-scale invasion, the project turned into a volunteer headquarters that supports Ukrainian military women. Kseniya, together with her friends, began to collect boxes of humanitarian aid for each of them. Over time, relationships with large foundations and organizations were established. The girl has already opened the “Countrywomen” Non-Profit Organization and plans to receive grants to develop the headquarters. During the period of its existence, the “Countrywomen” have helped several hundred women. Kseniya tries to keep in touch with each of them and know about their needs at the front line. Kseniya publishes the stories of heroines assisted by the non-profit organization in “Countrywomen’s” Instagram.

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• women

Serhii Revenko, architect, and Mykyta Solopov, translator, establish a digital archive of Ukrainian heritage, which is being or can be destroyed by russians during the full-scale war. In such a manner, the volunteers try to capture the visual history of the country. The scanned objects include the school and the fire station in Kharkiv, the Ascension Church, the Youth Library in Chernihiv, the destroyed Irpinskyi Bridge and the historic building in Kyiv destroyed during the large-scale missile strike on October 17. Serhii Revenko is ready to scan the new heritage together with journalists and talk about why this project is important for him.

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• volunteers

Odesa developers have launched “yePPO” (We Have Air Defense) application, and the first russian missile has already been shot down with the aid of this app. The application allows citizens to report missiles, drones and aircraft, and it is already available on Google Play. Volunteer programmers got aid in creating this app from Operational Command “South,” the Ukrainian Navy and the Ministry of Digital Transformation. At a Media Center Ukraine — Odesa briefing on October 27, the creators of the app will tell where the idea to create it came from, whose help they are most looking forward to in the app, and when it will appear on the AppStore.

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• volunteers
• Odesa

In Kharkiv, volunteers weave camouflage nets from russian military uniforms. When the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated the Kharkiv region, the enemies left not only their weapons, but also their uniforms. Now volunteers chop these clothes with axes to make it easier to cut them into strips and weave nets.

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• Kharkiv

Maksym Lutsyk, Rostyslav Stoika, and Rostyslav Bilyi, Professors at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, developed a hemostatic agent that now saves the lives of Ukrainian soldiers. They got to work on it back in 2014, after russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Two years later, they patented it. And now, at the cost of American investors, they produce the hemostatic agent and send it to the front at no charge. When this hemostatic agent comes into contact with blood, it forms a viscous gel, which helps stop bleeding. In some respects, the “Blood Clotting Activator”, as the scientists called it, surpassed “Celox”, the well-established on the market drug produced in the UK.

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• volunteers
• Lviv

Serhiy Zhadan, the Ukrainian writer, is awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. The award was presented for creativity and humanitarian stance, assistance to civilians and military.

Since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, Serhiy Zhadan has remained in Kharkiv, which is constantly attacked by russians. The writer is engaged in volunteering, helping the Ukrainian military and civilians of the city.

For reference: The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade is an annual award of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association presented since 1950. Hermann Hesse, Karl Jaspers, Janusz Korczak, Astrid Lindgren, Orhan Pamuk and Margaret Atwood have been previously presented this award.

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• Kharkiv