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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
In January, the VETERANKA team delivered frontline support totaling UAH 1 993 939.
What was provided:
FPV/UAV and supplies;
ammunition;
tactical medical supplies;
power supply systems;
communication equipment;
fuel for defenders’ vehicles.
Thank you to everyone who contributes to supporting our service members. Together, we are building a better[...]
05.02.2026
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
On August 29, 2024, the project The Unwritten was officially launched by writer and combat medic Olena Herasymiuk together with writer and serviceman Yevhen Lir. They began compiling the list back in spring 2023, when it included 48 names. Today, it contains more than 275 individuals — authors, writers, editors, journalists, cultural managers, and others.
Olena Herasymiuk took part in the “Memory Polis” forum organized by VETERANKA at the KSE Dragon Capital Building on January 23.
“For us, this is a deeply personal story. Some of these authors were our acquaintances, friends,[...]
23.01.2026
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[...]
22.01.2026
The VETERANKA movement has delivered a MAUL evacuation capsule to the “Vedmedi” unit, where our sister-in-arms and combat medic Yuliia Sidorova, callsign “Cuba,” is serving. This unmanned ground evacuation capsule can be deployed into the most dangerous areas to extract the wounded—without putting a crew at risk.
In total, UAH 1,200,000 was spent on the procurement of the unmanned ground system, equipped with thermal imaging cameras, Starlink connectivity, and other essential components.
We extend special thanks to the women’s community of Intellias and to Gender in Detail[...]
21.01.2026