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From Zaporizhzhia to Lviv. Task Force Yankee helps refugees.
Besides the medical training Task Force Yankee provides to the Ukrainian Security Forces, we recently were able to help refugees. […]
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Training and saving lives – support by Task Force Yankee Ukraine
The focus of operations, conducted by Task Force Yankee Ukraine are TC3, the so-called Tactical Combat Casualty Care. Until today, over 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have been trained to conduct firsthand medical care on themselves and others. […]
Security
Social capital in war: Personal experience
Denys Kuklin, a member of the NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION “Ukraine SOS” and its founder Oleksandr Shevchenko talk about social capital as an element of personal security. […]
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Petr Pojman: Latent consequences of the war will be eliminated for years
Czech criminologist Petr Pojman shares plans for the next project of Maidan Monitoring Information Center – it should be systematization and mapping of the latent cultural and ecological consequences of the war in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region (perhaps also in Donetsk and Luhansk regions). Such information is necessary for the restoration of the liberated territories of Ukraine, and two more important components for this are funds and expertise of people or organizations that have experience in solving similar problems. […]
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Petr Pojman explains: Why is there no heating and no internet in Izium?
The newly liberated territories of Ukraine are suffering from the energy problems, due to the actions of Russian army – generally, the electrical infrastructure, petrol stations are destroyed. The biggest problem for the next cold […]
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Nataliya Zubar. Humanitarian disaster in Izyum
The humanitarian disaster in Izyum as recalled by Nataliya Zubar in an interview with Ihor Kiianchuk. […]
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Why Do Ukrainian Children Play War?
You pass through the checkpoint. And there you are not met by the military, but by children playing war with toy machines. A similar picture can be seen both near the front and in more or less peaceful towns and villages. Children’s roadblocks became as much a feature of wartime as explosions and air strikes. […]
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“For us in Europe, it’s something absolutely crazy” – exploring the rocket-proof bus station in Kharkiv
Nataliya Zubar and Czech criminologist Petr Pojman are exploring the first rocket-proof bus station in Kharkiv, which can be a shelter in case of shelling or missile attack. Inside, there are cameras, panic button and no windows. The place looks safe but absolutely crazy for an ordinary European. […]
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NOTICE in criminal proceedings related to the Russian Federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine
The notice contains a brief systematic description of the pretrial investigation in criminal proceedings carried out in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine, the definitions of the main terms, rights and obligations of the parties, as well as the assignment of functions between the investigator and the prosecutor. […]
Fracture Exhibition
A photo exhibition about destroyed Kharkiv opened in Berezhany
The documentary exhibition “The Kharkiv Fracture” opened in the Berezhany Museum of Local History. The authors of the photo talk about various aspects of the destruction in Kharkiv, which has been suffering from Russian artillery shelling and rocket attacks every day since February 24, 2022. […]
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This is the behavior of a maniac who has no purpose
What is the purpose of the shelling of Kharkiv’s public infrastructure by Russian troops, and does this purpose exist at all? This is the topic of the interview conducted by Petro Pojman with Volodymyr Tymoshko, head of the Main Department of the National Police in the Kharkiv region, at the site of the kindergarten fired at by missiles, August 30, 2022. Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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Kharkiv. Chronicles of the Attack on the City. Day 139 (12.07.2022)
Muscovite shelling of Kharkiv increased slightly during the day. They launched another missile strike early in the morning at a target in Pavlove Pole. In the middle of the day, an industrial zone in the southeast of the city was shelled with rocket artillery. There are wounded. Kharkiv oligarch Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, owner of the DCH company, returned to Ukraine after fleeing in mid-February 2022 due to a car accident. The car he was likely driving hit and killed a man. […]
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Kharkiv. Chronicles of the Attack on the City. Day 138 (11.07.2022)
The day was generally calm but difficult. The muscovites shelled the northeastern outskirts of the city with rocket artillery, killing six people and injuring 31. The morning began with three rocket strikes in different areas of the city. As a result, an apartment building, a school, and warehouses were partially destroyed, school and warehouses as well. Because of the attacks, transit operations on the Saltivka metro line and a number of bus, trolleybus, and tram routes in Saltivka were temporarily suspended. Regional and city authorities announced that the new academic year in schools and universities will begin remotely. […]
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Kharkiv. Chronicles of the Attack on the City. Day 136 (09.07.2022)
The day was relatively quiet overall, but there were some isolated instances of shelling on the northern outskirts of the city. A rocket attack struck the city center in the morning, destroying an apartment building and leaving numerous people wounded. An architectural group proposed a project to restore Pivnichna Saltivka, but the idea is highly questionable due to the constant shelling of that area and the threat of similar strikes in the future on the northern outskirts. […]
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The Russian attack on Ukraine as the highest stage of deviant behaviour of a fascist regime and a socially depressed society – views from criminologists.
The situation we observe today on the Ukrainian battlefield provides an answer to the question of why the Russian leadership has purposefully cultivated violent and criminal subcultures. […]