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Culture Helps Solidarity supports arts and culture professionals from Ukraine to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war. Running until 2028, it combines three grant schemes (individual grants, thematic project grants and collaboration grants) and a rich programme of mentoring, learning, and peer exchange. Culture Helps Solidarity is co-financed by the EU through Creative Europe and implemented by the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam) with Insha Osvita (Kyiv), zusa (Berlin), and the VETERANKA[...]
16.03.2026
To mark International Women’s Rights Day, the VETERANKA Movement launched a large-scale campaign titled “Women Can Do Everything!” along with a major fundraising effort of UAH 6,000,000 to support the units where our members serve.
Today, around 70,000 women serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with another more than 6,000 serving in the National Guard of Ukraine. About 5,500 servicewomen are currently performing combat missions on the most difficult sections of the front line. At the same time, the share of women officers has increased in recent years from 4% to 21%.
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08.03.2026
On the day marking four years since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we share the stories of women who decided that day that they could not stand aside.
Many people rose to defend their country. Among them were members of the Movement — “Khymera,” “Vysota,” “Borysivna,” “Ruda,” “Lelya,” and “Niks.”They came to the military from different professional backgrounds and life experiences, but they were united by one thing: the impossibility of staying on the sidelines when the full-scale war began. Their stories are about evacuations under fire,[...]
24.02.2026
The VETERANKA Movement brought together experts and coordinated the development of the Methodological Guidelines on Organizing Services for Women and Men Veterans at the Primary Health Care Level. Specialists from different areas of medicine who have experience working with veterans contributed their knowledge and drew on leading international practices.
The Guidelines are now available for download on our website.
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These recommendations are especially timely. As of September 15, 2025, according to official data from[...]
20.02.2026
Community (Dis-)Connections: How Culture Helps and Has Its Limits
Culture Helps Solidarity supports arts and culture professionals from Ukraine to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war. Running until 2028, the programme combines three grant schemes – individual grants, thematic project grants, and collaboration grants – with a rich programme of mentoring, learning, and peer exchange. It is co-financed by the EU through the Creative Europe programme and implemented by the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam) with Insha Osvita (Kyiv),[...]
20.02.2026
Yana “Multyk,” FPV drone operator, commander of the women’s UAV operators platoon “Amazons of Banshee” (141st Separate Mechanized Brigade), Junior Sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, sister of the VETERANKA movement
Commander of the women’s UAV operators platoon “Banshee Amazons” — on her combat path and how to join the unit
Yana Zalevska, callsign “Multyk,” is a kamikaze drone operator, commander of the women’s UAV operators platoon “Banshee Amazons” in the Unmanned Systems Battalion of the 141st Separate Mechanized Brigade, and a member of the[...]
16.02.2026
The founder of the organization Vshanuj was combat medic and journalist Iryna “Cheka” Tsybukh. She spoke extensively and systematically researched, among other things, the culture of memory. In May 2024, she delivered her first lecture on this topic for businesses. On May 29 of that same year, she was killed during a rotation in the Kharkiv direction. However, a team remained and continued to develop what had been fundamental to her vision. The organization was represented at the “Memory Polis” forum held by the VETERANKA Movement at the KSE Dragon Capital Building on January[...]
06.02.2026
Culture Helps Solidarity supports arts and culture professionals from Ukraine to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war. Running until 2028, it combines three grant schemes (individual grants, thematic project grants and collaboration grants) and a rich programme of mentoring, learning, and peer exchange. Culture Helps Solidarity is co-financed by the EU through Creative Europe and implemented by the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam) with Insha Osvita (Kyiv), zusa (Berlin), and[...]
02.02.2026
The memory culture platform “Past / Future / Art” has existed since 2019. Its curators, Kateryna Semeniuk and Oksana Dovhopolova, set out to create a space for public discussion and for working through questions that are connected to the past, but in fact remain urgent for the present. The team took part in the “Memory Polis” forum organized by VETERANKA at the KSE Dragon Capital Building on January 23.
Until 2022, the team focused on tragedies that were more distant in time, such as the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. Since 2022, the platform has also been working on memorialization[...]
02.02.2026
On January 23, VETERANKA hosted the large-scale forum “Memory Polis” at the Kyiv School of Economics Dragon Capital Building. The event brought together experts and representatives of memory and memorialization initiatives. More than 120 participants joined offline, while over 800 people have already watched the livestream and recording.
Across four panel discussions, we explored how the culture of memory is being shaped today, where commemoration practices in Ukraine are heading, and how different wartime experiences and narratives coexist in the public space.
The forum also[...]
29.01.2026