Stand with Ukraine. New Zealand

02/09/2024

ENG

Join Ukrainian Community this Saturday, 7 September, at 1:30 pm for a special Moleben for Peace in Ukraine. We are honored to welcome Fr. Andriy Mykytyuk, Synkellos for the Laity of the Eparchy of Sts Peter and Paul of Melbourne for Ukrainian Catholics in Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, who will be leading the service.

📍 St Paul’s Cathedral (228 Stuart Street, Central Dunedin)

As usual, we will be gathering from noon at the Upper Octagon for our protest. If you wish, you can join us there, and afterward, we will head to St Paul’s Cathedral together. After the prayer, there will be an opportunity to meet and socialize over tea. If possible, please bring something sweet to share. We look forward to seeing you there!

УКР

Приєднуйтеся до нас цієї суботи, 7 вересня, о 13:30 на особливий Молебень до Пресвятої Богородиці за Мир в Україні, який вестиме Andriy Mykytyuk

📍 Собор Святого Павла (228 Stuart Street, Central Dunedin)

Як зазвичай, ми збираємося опівдні на the Upper Octagon на наш протест. Якщо бажаєте, приєднуйтесь до нас там, а після цього ми разом вирушимо до St Paul’s Cathedral. Після молитви - чаювання та спілкування. Якщо можливо, принесіть щось солодке до столу. Чекаємо на вас!

20/08/2024

🇺🇦 Join Us to Celebrate Ukrainian Independence Day! 🇺🇦

This Saturday, August 24, 2024, at noon, we’re gathering at the Octagon in Dunedin to celebrate Independence Day of Ukraine! As usual, we’ll be in the Carriageway near the Band Stand.

Come enjoy a variety of souvenirs, crafts, and sweets while supporting a great cause. Please bring cash with you. All proceeds from sales and donations will go directly to humanitarian aid in Ukraine, helping to bring closer the Ukrainian victory.

If you’d like to contribute by bringing items for sale, we welcome your participation. Otherwise, come join us to celebrate and show your support for Ukraine!

We look forward to seeing you there!

🇺🇦 Приєднуйтесь до святкування Дня Незалежності України! 🇺🇦

Цієї суботи, 24 серпня 2024 року, о 12:00 ми збираємося на Октагоні в Данідіні, щоб відсвяткувати День Незалежності України! Як завжди, будемо у Carriageway біля Band Stand.

Приходьте, підтримуйте Україну своєю присутністю та фінансово, приносьте сувеніри та вашу творчість на продаж, печіть солоденькі смаколики, підтримуючи Україну на шляху до Перемоги. Усі виручені кошти від продажу та донати підуть безпосередньо на гуманітарну допомогу Україні.

Чекаємо на вас!

11/07/2024

Date: Saturday, July 13
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: Lower Octagon, Dunedin

On Monday, russia deliberately struck Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine. This leading pediatric hospital provides essential medical services, including complex surgeries and treatments for serious illnesses. Targeting such a facility is a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and puts thousands of sick children at risk.

russia continues to strike civilian objects daily, including schools, universities, maternity clinics, hospitals, supermarkets, and residential buildings.

Stand with us to support Ukraine and protest against these war crimes. Donations will be collected. Together, we can make a difference.

18/02/2024

It is already 10 years of recent war in Ukraine and 2 years of russian full-scale invasion to Ukraine.

February 24, 2024 marks 2 years since the beginning of the russian federation’s criminal, genocidal, and full-scale invasion of Ukraine. russia’s full-scale invasion was the culmination of the war of aggression that moscow launched against Ukraine 10 years ago when it occupied and annexed Crimea in 2014.

The goal of the russian federation's invasion of Ukraine is not just the seizure of territories, but the elimination of Ukrainian national identity and the genocide of the Ukrainian people.

The military-political leadership of the russian federation openly denies Ukraine's right to exist as a sovereign independent state. The russian ideology of “rashism,” which is widely professed by the russian political class, denies the existence of Ukrainians as a separate nation. The mandatory study of putin's anti-academic essay "On the Historical Unity of russians and Ukrainians" has been introduced in russian schools and universities.

The horrific massacres in Bucha, Izyum, and the mass murder of people in Mariupol were a clear manifestation of moscow's genocidal policy. Terrible atrocities, war crimes, and many cases of r**e committed by russian invaders in Ukraine shocked the whole world. Networks of torture chambers for the civilian population were discovered in all of the territories de-occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. russian occupational authorities created these torture chambers that lay bare the systematic and organized nature of the violence that russian invaders have inflicted against Ukrainians.

russian policies in the occupied Ukrainian territories are a repeat of the worst practices of Na**sm: mass executions and abuse of civilians, deliberate plundering and theft of private property and valuables, forced passportization of the population (forced assignment of russian citizenship to Ukrainians), mass deportations of civilians and abduction of Ukrainian children.

moscow is also implementing the policy of replacing the population of the occupied territories. Using a system of social and financial preferences, the russian authorities stimulate the resettlement of russians from remote and disadvantaged regions of the russian federation to the occupied Ukrainian territories. For example, according to the elected Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, as of January 2024, 50% of the population of the occupied city is now comprised of resettlers from russia.

The deliberate destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant dam by the russians in June 2023 was ecocide. The scale of the crime is the largest in Europe in recent history. It is an example of the russian federation’s daunting barbarism. This disaster massively polluted the Black Sea, deprived millions of Ukrainians, including the population of the occupied Crimean peninsula, of fresh water, and will have long-term negative consequences for agricultural land in southern Ukraine. This crime demonstrates russia's absolute and cynical indifference to the fate of the Ukrainian territories it occupies and the people who live there.

Meanwhile, unable to win on the battlefield, russia continues to terrorize Ukraine with missiles. In 2023, russian missile strikes were mostly aimed at destroying Ukraine's economic potential, primarily port and agricultural infrastructure. With the onset of winter, the russians resumed attacks against Ukrainian energy facilities and other critical civilian infrastructure.

The russian federation’s long-term goals in its war against Ukraine are to dismantle the existing rules-based international order, to break the unity of democratic countries and to return the world to an age of empires, spheres of influence and colonial wars. The countries allied with the russian federation in the current "Axis of Evil" use the same motives to justify their own aggressive intentions in their respective regions. Thus, putin's russia represent a systemic and long-term threat to all democratic countries, and above all to the European Union.

21/12/2023

УКР/ ENG

Привіт, ми започаткували проект допомоги українцям, які змінили місце проживання через російську агресію.

Цей проект - двомовний англо-український проект допомоги українцям, які змінили місце проживання через російську агресію.

Цей проект має на меті не лише дати практичні поради тим, хто потребує допомоги, а також дати розуміння причини травми поколінь, зв’язок з історичними подіями та історією України та української нації.

В цьому проекті ми допомагаємо зрозуміти, прийняти і побороти генетичну травму. Попри те, що українці - сильні і витривалі, фахові поради допоможуть впоратись як зі старою травмою, так і зі свіжою, що виникла внаслідок останньої війни з росією. Фахові психологи, кардіологи, дієтологи та інші фахівці допоможуть покращити психічне та фізичне здоров"я, поліпшити яксть життя. Якщо у вас виникнуть питання - пишіть нам, ми їх опрацюємо і запишемо додаткові відео, де дамо на ці питання відповіді. Якщо вам потрібна буде індивідуальна консультація, наші спеціалісти залюбки зустрінуться з вами онлайн.

Поради фахівців допоможуть не лише українцям, то ж приєднуйтесь до нашої сторінки, ящо ви потребуєте допомоги або хочете взяти участь у нашому проекті і запсисати відео.

ENG

This project is a bilingual English-Ukrainian project to help Ukrainians who have changed their place of living due to russian aggression. This project is aimed not only to give practical advises for those who need help, but also to give the understanding of the reason of generational trauma, the connection with historical events and history of Ukraine and Ukrainian nation.

In this project, we help to understand, accept and overcome generational trauma. Despite the fact that Ukrainians are strong and hardy, professional advice will help to cope with both - the old trauma and the fresh one, that developed as a result of the recent war with russia. Psychologists, cardiologists, nutritionists and other specialists will help to improve your mental and physical health, the quality of life. If you have any questions, contact us and we will process them and record additional videos where we will answer these questions. If you need individual consultation, our specialists will gladly meet with you online.

Experts' advice will help not only Ukrainians but others as well, please join our page if you need help or want to participate in our video project.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554179453380

Проект допомоги українцям, які змінили місце проживання через російську агресію.

21/12/2023

Please come on Saturday at 11:30 am to the Upper Octagon to enjoy Ukrainian traditional food, sweets, buy Christmas gifts and listen to Ukrainian traditional Christmas carols, it promises to be a great day! All funds raised tomorrow will be used to send a container of wheelchairs donated by New Zealand hospitals to help the wounded in Ukrainian hospitals.

11/12/2023

Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.

10/12/2023

Nine months in Russian captivity. Oleksii Anulia told how he was starving, eating worms and a live mouse.

"They gave me somebody’s clothes with dried excrement on the underpants. The dark blue pants with red stripes, similar to those worn by the police, were shot at the knees. There were tendons hanging down, traces of vomit and blood. For the first time, my hands were tied in front instead of behind. I could already lift the tape that covered my eyes and saw where we were. Then we were driven to a plane in a vehicle for transporting prisoners. Only ten of us were on board. Two of them were from Slavutych and one from Chernihiv. They brought us back to Kursk, to the same jail where I had been before. I said goodbye to my life once again...

After another torture, I returned to my cell. I had already had my sheet rolled, on which I planned to hang myself. As soon as I threw it on the bunk bars, the silhouette of my late grandmother appeared in front of me. She had died shortly before the war. She walked over, washed the sink, and said: “Where are you going? You haven’t bought your children any gifts for the New Year yet.” I have two children: daughter is nine and son is five. The guards saw on surveillance cameras that I was allegedly talking to someone, opened the cell and beat me again with all their might".

Read the whole interview here:

https://texty.org.ua/articles/111246/nine-months-in-russian-captivity-oleksii-anulia-told-how-he-was-starving-eating-worms-and-a-live-mouse/?fbclid=IwAR1aZ8F8bfFYwUrg5Qb2Y7PKrorgBcZwx804M4RYoQegDCndxLiKmcD_KkM

On December 31st, 2022, 140 Ukrainian soldiers, including 30-year-old Oleksii Anulia, a kickboxer from Chernihiv, returned from Russian captivity. Oleksii …

11/01/2023

Mother transports the coffin with the body of her son, a soldier. The bridge once connected two banks of the Pechenihy Reservoir in the Kharkiv region. Now people have to use boats to get to their destinations.

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