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The military offensive by the Russian Federation in Ukraine which began February 2022 has triggered one of the worlds fastest-growing displacement and humanitarian crisis, with geopolitical and economic ripples felt across the globe. The ongoing war has caused large-scale disruptions to the delivery of health services and a near-collapse of the health system. But the crisis also saw an extraordinary mobilization and crisis response to a health emergency by WHO and its more than 100 partners.

The just published interim reportdemonstrates what has been achieved in just over three months; how WHO, the health authorities in Ukraine and international and national partners have reached and assisted millions of people and prevented Ukraines health system from disintegrating and ceasing to function.

By delivering specialized medical supplies, coordinating the deployment of emergency medical teams, verifying and reporting attacks on healthcare and working with health authorities, WHO and health partners have minimized disruptions to the delivery of critical healthcare services within Ukraine and in countries hosting refugees.

This life saving work would not be possible without your valuable and continued support.

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WHO's Response to the Ukraine Crisis - World Health Organization

In this system, even tycoons must live with the uncertainty that someone closer to Mr. Putin than them could take away all their wealth tomorrow. The culture of humiliation goes deep into society. Sexual harassment is routine. A 2017 law decriminalized some domestic abuse against children and women. Extreme hazing has been rife in the army.

The father figure in this family is, of course, authoritarian. Over three-quarters of Russians believe that they need a strong hand to rule the country, a common phrase that denotes a leader who will both protect and violently discipline its people and that Kremlin propaganda often uses to describe Mr. Putin.

In describing Ukraine, Mr. Putin often uses the same discourse. He invokes Russian clichs that deify Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, as the mother of all Russian cities and then turns on this idealized mother when she doesnt do what he wants. Just weeks before the invasion, during a news conference with President Emmanuel Macron of France, Mr. Putin said Ukraine should just do her duty, my beauty and put up with it, a line that was widely viewed as a reference to lyrics about rape.

Maybe the description of the Russian Empire as a family is apt, actually. A family that is deeply unhappy and abusive, in which traumas are layered on top of traumas and some members are singled out for more suffering, some for less, but everyone suffers; those who feel unable to leave dont want anybody to escape.

After the 2014 Russian-backed uprising in eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin turned the separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk into a Soviet Dismaland, with Soviet-style youth groups, propaganda parades with Soviet flags and marches of captured Ukrainian troops through the streets. This time in Ukraine, Russia repeats Soviet mass deportations, detentions and enforced disappearances of intellectuals and activists who support Ukrainian sovereignty. Humiliated people can struggle to imagine a future as they play out old traumas over and over. We wont let you emerge into a future, the Kremlin seems to be saying to Ukrainians; we want you stuck in the past we cant overcome.

Kremlin propaganda successfully sublimates the sense of humiliation onto the West. According to Denis Volkov, the director of the polling firm Levada Center since 2014, Russians have claimed that if it wasnt for Ukraine, the West would have found another excuse to humiliate Russia through sanctions and other measures. Levadas most recent research suggests that 75 percent of Russians support the war. That support, though, is more of a case of a people so crushed by the state they follow along with anything it tells them to, argues the sociologist Lev Gudkov. More objective statistics are TV ratings for political talk shows. The highest ratings go to shows such as Sunday Evening With Vladimir Solovyov and 60 Minutes, where hosts and guests often call for the annihilation of Ukrainian independence.

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Opinion | Putin Performs for Russia, and Ukraine Is the Stage - The New York Times

CISA and Ukraine SSSCIP Sign Agreement to Deepen Cybersecurity Operational Collaboration

WASHINGTON The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Ukrainian State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine (SSSCIP) signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) this week to strengthen collaboration on shared cybersecurity priorities.

The MOC expands upon CISAs existing relationship with the Government of Ukraine in the areas of:

I am incredibly pleased to sign this MOC to deepen our cybersecurity collaboration with our Ukrainian partners, said CISA Director Jen Easterly. I applaud Ukraines heroic efforts to defend its nation against unprecedented Russian cyber aggression and have been incredibly moved by the resiliency and bravery of the Ukrainian people throughout this unprovoked war. Cyber threats cross borders and oceans, and so we look forward to building on our existing relationship with SSSCIP to share information and collectively build global resilience against cyber threats.

This memorandum of cooperation represents an enduring partnership and alignment in defending our shared values through increased real-time information sharing across agencies and critical sectors and committed collaboration in cultivating a resilient partnership, said Mr. Oleksandr Potii, Deputy Chairman, SSSCIP.

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More photos emerged Thursday showing the destruction left by the Russian bombardment this week in Bakhmut just before the Ukrainian city was hit again by rockets.

Bakhmut, a city in the northern part of Donetsk province, was home to over 70,000 Ukrainians before the war began.

Now, as Russian forces double down on their efforts to take the eastern Donbas region made up of the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces the war has come to Bakhmut in the form of artillery strikes.

Images circulating Thursday show rescue workers trying to pull wounded Ukrainians from the rubble of a hotel struck Wednesday when Russian forces fired on the city.

Donetsks governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said on Telegram Thursday that the city had been hit again by Russian rockets, leaving at least three dead.

Bakhmut is again under Russian fire today the Russians shelled the city four times, he wrote.

At least three dead and three wounded are already known, Kyrylenko continued. Six apartment buildings and six private houses were damaged.

Kyrylenko accused the Russians of using cluster munitions in their bombardment of the city.

Meanwhile, as the fight for the Donbas raged on, Russian troops were confirmed to have taken the coal-fired powerplant of Vuhlehirsk, less than 40 miles from Bakhmut.

Ukrainian presidential advisor Oleksiy Arestovych said the capture of the plant gave Russian forces a tiny tactical advantage as they appeared to restart their flagging offensive in the east.

Ukrainian and Russian forces were set to clash in the south, as Kyiv confirmed a large counteroffensive operation was underway to retake the Kherson region in the Ukrainian south.

Ukrainian defense officials acknowledged that a large Russian force was gearing up to meet them, in what Arestovych called a massive redeployment of Russian forces in the South.

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New photos show heartbreaking destruction in Bakhmut, Ukraine - New York Post

All over the Donetsk region, close to the front lines of Russia's war in Ukraine, Nataliia Voronkova turns up at Ukrainian field positions and hospitals wearing high heels.

A colleague bought her running shoes, but Ms Voronkova gave them away.

A helmet and a protective vest aren't part of her uniform either, as she distributes first-aid kits and other equipment to Ukrainian soldiers and paramedics.

She is a civilian, the founder of a medical non-profit group, and looking like one is something no one can take from her, even in a combat zone.

"I am myself, and I will never give up my heels for anything," Ms Voronkova said of the red strappy sandals, beige pumps and other elegant footwear she typically pairs with full skirts and midi dresses as she makes her dangerous rounds to secret military bases and mobile medical units.

The former adviser to the Ukrainian Defence Ministry with graduate degrees in banking and finance is a familiar sight to officers and troops in eastern Ukraine.

For eight years after Moscow seized Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014, Ms Voronkova dedicated her life to providing tactical medical training and equipment for Ukrainian forces fighting pro-Russia separatists.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February has created exponentially more need for her organisation, Volunteers Hundred Dobrovolia, and new challenges.

Working on their own, Ms Voronkova and her assistant, Yevhen Veselov, drive a van filled with donated supplies everything from night vision goggles and battlefield basics like tourniquets and medical staplers to the advancedequipment needed for brain surgery swiftly through checkpoints, irrespective of curfews.

Servicemen recognise Ms Voronkova and with one look, let them through.

The smell of her sweet cherry cigarillos fills the air when she gets out of her van to smoke one with her manicured red nails.

Although she manages 20 people and lives in Kyiv, Ms Voronkova has been in eastern Ukraine since the Russians focused their attention there in April, and she insists on delivering first-aid kits to the front line herself.

"A woman is like the neck of the head. She moves everything," she said.

Ms Voronkova grew up loving medicine, but her family did not want her to pursue it.

They were bankers and thought she should take the same career path. The separatist conflict that started in 2014 persuaded her to study combat medicine, and she eventually received certification as an instructor.

From 2015 until Russia invaded Ukraine, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry tasked her with finding solutions to problems encountered by army units in the Donbas.

Now, she uses her own teaching techniques to help the units protect themselves and their comrades in battle.

"I still remind my mother that when I was in 10th grade, I had a box filled with (over-the-counter) pills, and all my friends at school knew I had medicine for everything," she said.

"Unfortunately, I could not pursue my dream. But today I am implementing it by giving aid."

Martial law has swelled the ranks of Ukraine's defenders, but many of the people who have joined the military during the war entering its sixth month do not have combat experience or the supplies they need.

"It feels like 2014. We need first-aid kits and uniforms for the territorial defence. I think it was created with hardly any time to allocate a budget for them. Therefore, they need support from volunteers," Ms Voronkova says.

As she brought boxes of scalpels, electro-coagulation devices, emergency catheters and other supplies to a hospital in the city of Kurakhove, the roar of outgoing rockets and incoming shelling did not make her flinch.

In her tactical medical class, Ms Voronkova commands a room filled with soldiers, paramedics, and technicians spanning a range of ages.

She grabs their attention with her loud voice, humour and experience. Air raid sirens blasted as she taught a class in Dobropillia, but she went on with her lesson in an underground bomb shelter.

The training she provides has become more crucial during the long battle for Ukraine's Donbas region, where Russian forces have both carried out relentless air strikes and shelling but also engaged in street-by-street fighting as they try to seize control of villages, cities and towns.

Ms Voronkova thinks the opportunity for Ukraine's government to work out a peaceful solution with Moscow has long passed and "at the moment, the price of victory is our lives."

During her travels around Donetsk, in Bakhmut, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Toretsk and other places Russia hopes to capture, she meets and gives advice to everyone from high-ranking officers to paramedics. The male officers listen, and the young medics open up to her about their experiences.

Ms Voronkova stands for hours, patiently listening and giving guidance.

"Every evening when I go to sleep, I ask myself, 'What good thing have I done today?'" she said.

"I want people to understand that they come into this world not only to eat, drink, and have fun every day, but to do something good. No day should be wasted."

AP

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This Ukrainian volunteer medic saves lives wearing bright red lipstick and high heels - ABC News