Society & Culture

Among the Ukrainian children deported by Russia are children who were brought up in boarding schools, foster families, family-type homes, as well as those who lost their parents due to hostilities. That’s according to Yuliya Usenko, Head of the Children Protection and Violence Response Department at the Prosecutor General's Office, who spoke at the national telethon, Ukrinform reports. "These are very different categories of children. These are orphans, deprived of parental care who were raised in institutional care facilities. These are children who were in foster families, family-type orphanages. There are even those children who lost their parents amid hostilities…

A tattoo studio in Russia’s Biysk has been passed off as Ukrainian by Russian propaganda The Russian mass media, Telegram channels and Z-accounts on Twitter are spreading a photograph of a tattoo studio, allegedly Ukrainian, named ‘Tattoo-Master’, with an outdoor sign that offers to “remove swastika at half price” for those leaving for EU countries. This photo has even reached a Polish forum. It is a fabricated image. The true name of the tattoo studio is TATTOOIROGRAF, and it is located not in Ukraine but in Russia’s Biysk in Altai Krai. The original image has only the tattoo studio’s name…

Vakhtang Kikabidze, a famous film actor, pop singer, screenwriter, film director, songwriter and member of the Georgian Parliament, has died aged 84 in Georgia. That's according to the Georgian TV channel Mtavari, Ukrinform reports. Kikabidze was a great friend of Ukraine who strongly condemned the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine. In August 2022, he transferred the funds received from his concert in Batumi to help the 26th Artillery Brigade named after Corporal General Roman Dashkevych of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

Ukraine handed over a list of 800 wounded soldiers to Russia for possible repatriation. Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, said this during the nationwide news telethon, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. Speaking of the third round of negotiations with Russian human rights commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova, he said that the issue of repatriation of seriously wounded service members had been discussed among other things. According to Lubinets, there was a moment during the negotiations when they opened the Geneva Conventions, compared different options in different languages, and came to the conclusion that the prisoners of war, who are…

Ten modern city buses left Riga for Kyiv on Tuesday, January 10. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said this in a post on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. "This is assistance from our Latvian friends. The buses are also delivering humanitarian aid collected by Latvian citizens. The delegation to Kyiv is headed by the Chairman of the Latvian Saeima, Edvards Smiltens," he wrote. Late in April last year, Smiltens, then the vice mayor of Riga, visited the Ukrainian capital and handed over 11 buses and humanitarian aid from Riga, Klitschko said. He noted that all the buses that Kyiv received at that time…

Russian Telegram channels spread a fake story about street name signs and signboards in Polish in Lviv city and region. Russian Telegram channel circulated reports claiming the Lviv Regional Military Administration allegedly approved a decision to duplicate street name signs and signboards in Polish in the city of Lviv and part of the region. The Russians added a quote by Head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi to this information. "We are expecting an influx of Polish tourists soon. We will do everything to make it convenient for our guests to find their way around," they wrote on…

A specialized state institution refuted fake news that was tried to be propagated on behalf of a private company Russian Telegram channel spread information about the alleged cholera outbreak in Odesa. It was backed up by a photo of a leaflet that the city residents allegedly received in their mailboxes. The leaflet called residents for utmost vigilance and caution, offered a list of precautionary measures and a phone number to call to in case of symptoms of illness. The leaflet was allegedly sent out by the private company "House Service" Management Company". The information about the alleged outbreak of cholera…

On the third anniversary of the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, employees of the Embassy of Ukraine in Iran have honored the memory of the victims at the crash site and at the Alley of Memory created by the Ukrainian diplomatic mission last year. Ukraine's charge d'affaires ad interim in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Yevhen Kravchenko, said this in a comment to Ukrinform. "Today, on the third anniversary of the crash of UIA Flight PS752, embassy staff traditionally visited the site of the plane crash in the morning and honored the memory of our citizens and other…

Number of Ukrainians who left for European countries after the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion has reached 7,915,287 people. Such data is provided by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Ukrinform reports. As noted, since February 24, more than 17 million people have left Ukraine for European countries, and more than 9.1 million people have returned to Ukraine. UNHCR says that the majority of Ukrainians – 8.6 million – crossed the Polish border, of whom 1.5 million officially registered in the country and 6.5 million already returned to Ukraine. In addition, 739,000 Ukrainians went to…

The father of Stepan Habrus, a Ukrainian sniper who was killed in action in the war with Russia, bought three vehicles to hand them over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. That’s according to the Lviv-based military Draft Office, Ukrinform reports. "Our children are our future so they deserve the best. My son can’t be returned, but there are others for whom we must fight on all fronts," said Mr. Vasyl, the father of the fallen defender. Stepan Habrus was born in 1986 and lived in the city of Skole, Lviv region. He fought in the Anti-Terrorist Operation, and after…