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A representative office of the Belgian development agency Enabel will be opened in Kyiv to help Ukrainian institutions in the recovery efforts and ensuring sustainability of critical and social infrastructure facilities.
Ambassador of Italy Carlo Formosa and His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC), have discussed the humanitarian activities of the UGCC in times of war and the recently adopted law banning the Russian church in Ukraine.
22 August 2024
Hubs for veterans and their families were opened in Brovary and Boryspil, district centers in Kyiv region.
In the issue of the future development of Ukraine, the key part is the level of physical safety, on which the amount of investments depends.
The government plans to open modern rehabilitation centers for military personnel and veterans in all regions of Ukraine, like the one already operating in Borodianka, Kyiv region.
By the end of the year, Ukraine aims to establish a standardized procedure for the involvement of dogs in humanitarian demining operations.
The absolute majority of Ukrainians are proud of their citizenship and seel to build their future life in their home country of Ukraine.
In the frontline areas, more than 33,000 families will receive assistance from UNICEF in preparation for winter.
Since the outset of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the absolute majority of Ukrainians (71%) have contributed to volunteer aid to the Army, temporarily displaced persons, or other war-affected persons.
The Center for Countering Disinformation has refuted Russian claims about an alleged outbreak of bacterial infection in Kherson.
21 August 2024
UNDP together with the Ministry of Economy and other partners presented the project "Use of service dogs for demining in Ukraine", aiming to develop the techniques for surveying contaminated areas, speeding up the demining process.
Russia is working on new propaganda operations across Europe that would target displaced Ukrainians who found shelter in Europe since the Russian invasion.
Since 2014, Russia has detained 46 citizens of Ukraine for "participation in the Noman Chelebidzhikhan Battalion", including 28 in temporarily occupied areas of Kherson region.
Sappers have already cleared of mines and unexploded ordnance 50% of territory in de-occupied Kherson region.
Since early August, 33,000 people, including 3,860 children, were evacuated from Donetsk region to safer regions.
Despite the reduction of the working-age population, the government has no intention to raise the retirement age.
20 August 2024
The Ministry of Social Policy is starting work on returning to Ukraine the evacuated children deprived of parental care to place them in family-type care facilities.
The Verkhovna Rada on Tuesday passed a law on criminal liability for crimes against the established order of military service under martial law.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine emphasized the need to ensure that Ukrainian schools have proper bomb shelters so that as many children as possible can study offline in the upcoming academic year.
The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to distribute about UAH 5 billion of additional subsidies from the state budget for bomb shelters in schools in the Chernihiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine asks the international donor community to contribute to the proper financing of UN’s Ukraine Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2024.
Lithuania is planning to extend temporary residence permits for refugees from Ukraine for another year.
19 August 2024
Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Representative of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Karolina Lindholm Billing, aimed at protecting the rights of persons affected by war.
Over the past two weeks, more than five thousand people have been evacuated from the communities of Sumy region that are most affected by enemy shelling.
Security issues and the reconstruction of housing and infrastructure are key needs for residents of the de-occupied communities of Kharkiv, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.
The heads of the Boryspil and Bucha territorial recruitment and social support centers, as well as their accomplice, will be held in custody without the right to put up bail.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, the WHO Country Office in Ukraine has recorded 1,940 Russian attacks on Ukraine's health care system.
The Russian government is blocking Signal and WhatsApp messengers, as well as disrupting the work of the YouTube video hosting, in order to strengthen control over access to media and information in the country.
Oleksandr Prokudin, chief of the Kherson regional military administration, says Russian invaders have looted and almost destroyed the Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve in Kherson region and are removing animals from the area to Russia.