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Christophe Kopp
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French, ex GP and medical editor. Daily roundup of information about Ukraine, based mostly on Ukrainian, Baltic, Nordic and Eastern European sources. #StandWithUkraine
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 2h
"Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, Lviv has become a humanitarian hub, helping millions of Ukrainians escape the war." rubryka.com/en/2025/10/0...
Solutions from Ukraine: Lviv comedy festival raises over €9,000 for military prosthetics
The Unbroken Stand-up Fest, an open-air charity event in Lviv, combined comedy, music, and support for Ukraine's military. Performances by prominent artists and audience donations raised 440,000 hryvn...
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 2h
And in the gaps left by state institutions stretched to breaking point, Ukrainian women step in." www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Uk...
Ukraine: women fighting an invisible war
In addition to the destruction and deaths on the front lines, Russia's war in Ukraine creates invisible victims, many of whom are women. Women's solidarity networks are trying to help victims of kidna...
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 2h
"In occupied territories, Russian security forces abduct teachers, journalist and ordinary residents. Along refugee routes, traffickers prey on women and children fleeing the bombings.
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 2h
"Lithuania's contribution is especially valuable in building shelters for schools across six Ukrainian regions bordering the combat zone." www.ukrinform.net/rubric-vidbu...
Shelter construction, energy: Lithuania implementing six recovery projects in Ukraine
Lithuania is currently carrying out six recovery projects in Ukraine, including the construction of shelters in border regions and support for the energy sector. — Ukrinform.
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 2h
"fighting is intensifying, leaving communities near the frontline in Dnipropetrovsk region with little or no access to healthcare." www.msf.org/eastern-ukra...
Eastern Ukraine: Displaced people struggle in overcrowded shelters | MSF
MSF teams are running mobile clinics for people who have been newly displaced by intensifying fighting in eastern Ukraine.
www.msf.org
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 2h
"As they weave, volunteers are simultaneously unraveling Ukraine’s colonial past and building community. Their conversation ebbs and flows with the movement of their hands." www.sapiens.org/culture/ukra...
Ukrainian Volunteers Weave Camouflage and Care
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukrainian volunteers have been gathering to create camouflage nets for fighters on the frontlines.
www.sapiens.org
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 2h
"The reality is, we're not just here to help Ukraine, we're here to learn from Ukraine...Learning for Western partners about all of the tragedy of the war and what's being learned to push battlefield medicine...but also civil medicine into new territory." spectrumnoticias.com/us/noticias/...
American doctors attend International Healthcare Summit in Ukraine
The conference focused on mental health, preventive care, trauma, orthopedic issues and prosthetics.
spectrumnoticias.com
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 2h
"multi-organ surgeries save the lives of several people at once and demonstrate the coordinated work of the medical community during challenging situations." mezha.net/eng/bukvy/mu...
Multi-Organ Donor Surgery Saves Four Lives in Odesa Clinical Hospital | Ukraine news - #Mezha
Multi-organ donor surgery in Odesa saved four lives, marking a significant advancement in Ukraine's transplant medicine.
mezha.net
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 2h
"Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, will each lead the development of one of the five military rehabilitation centres." www.miragenews.com/five-nato-al...
Five NATO Allies Support Medical Rehabilitation In Ukraine
Operation Renovator, NATO's ambitious project under the Comprehensive Assistance Package (CAP) for Ukraine, aims to rebuild and upgrade five military
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 2h
"We found concerning infections in many fighting in Ukraine and some were resistant to several groups of antibiotics. These microbes complicate combatant wound healing and could be a threat to civilians." www.nature.com/articles/s43...
War impact on antimicrobial resistance and bacteriological profile of wound infections in Ukraine - Communications Medicine
Holubnycha and Kholodylo examine wars impact on infection in Ukraine. They demonstrate the high prevalence of antimicrobial resistance and emphasize the importance of implementing IPC standards at all levels of healthcare provision.
www.nature.com
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 2h
"The Lviv region in which she works has some of the highest multidrug resistance levels in all of Ukraine, she says: both within hospital walls and beyond, showing up at clinics and doctor’s offices all over the city." www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
The pernicious infections infiltrating Ukraine’s front lines
Doctors and scientists are waging a shadow war in the besieged nation: bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. The deadly bugs are now knocking on western Europe’s door.
www.gavi.org
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 2h
"A rising number of wounded soldiers are infected with such strains, which include some microbes that are extensively drug-resistant or even pandrug resistant — they withstand most or all antibiotics thrown at them."
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 14h
"For NIS in Serbia, doing business will become exceptionally difficult from tomorrow, when the United States imposes sanctions, starting with payment systems." balkangreenenergynews.com/serbias-econ...
Serbia's economy in unchartered territory amid imminent US sanctions against oil company NIS
For NIS in Serbia, doing business is becoming exceptionally difficult as the United States is imposing sanctions, starting with payment systems.
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 14h
"Belgrade, which maintains close ties with Moscow, must now face the very unpleasant question: Is Serbia serving as a base for Russian efforts to destabilize Europe?" www.gazetaexpress.com/en/Is-Vucic-...
Is Vučić turning Serbia into Russia's instrument for destabilizing Europe?
Is Vučić turning Serbia into Russia's instrument for destabilizing Europe?
www.gazetaexpress.com
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 14h
"it's going to happen for one very simple reason, which is that the war has gone on for so long that the Europeans are running out of money, and since Trump has pulled out, they're the main funders of Ukraine." www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/08/b...
Bill Browder: It’s Time to Make Putin Pay for His War - The Moscow Times
Once a leading investor in Russian markets, U.S.-born British financier Bill Browder has been an outspoken critic of the Kremlin since the death of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, in a Russian prison in...
www.themoscowtimes.com
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 14h
"this can absolutely be stopped" as well as called on partners to significantly stronger counteraction to russian interference, promising to provide all the necessary information for this." en.defence-ua.com/news/ukraini...
​Ukrainian Intelligence Warnes Partners that russia Uses Tankers for Reconnaissance, Sabotage | Defense Express
russia uses tankers of the so-called "shadow fleet" not only to earn money to wage a war against Ukraine, but also for reconnaissance and even sabotage activities against European countries
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 14h
"the 39th Separate Coastal Defense Brigade have demonstrated the remarkable effectiveness of French Mistral man-portable air defense systems, shooting down three russian Shahed kamikaze drones during a single combat shift." en.defence-ua.com/news/the_39t...
​The 39th Brigade's Success Shows How French Mistral Systems Can Adapt to Counter the Shahed Drones | Defense Express
Ukrainian marines from the 39th Brigade used French Mistral air defense systems to destroy three russian Shahed drones in a single combat mission
en.defence-ua.com
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 16h
"After these restrictions, about 40% of users installed VPNs. However, these too gradually stopped working, as many services are blocked as soon as they are detected." odessa-journal.com/russia-turns...
Russia Tightens Internet Controls, Creates Isolated Digital RuNet - Oj
Russia blocks foreign websites and social media, restricting access even via VPNs, building a controlled, isolated digital environment like China’s Great Firewall.
odessa-journal.com
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 16h
Godverdomme! ask Ukrainians for drone rules "the company could... use jammers to disrupt drone control signals and force them down, but “we are not allowed—legally,” he said, adding that falling drones could also pose risks to people or infrastructure." united24media.com/latest-news/...
Thales Belgium Urges EU to Define Drone Rules After Mysterious Flyovers Above Its Facility
Alain Quevrin of Thales stresses the need for clear protocols to address unauthorized drone activity, as sightings surge over European defense sites.
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 16h
"the Russian authorities are trying to “justify the invasion” and to solidify in court sentences the propagandistic image of Ukraine “as a nationalist and pro-fascist state”. en.zona.media/article/2025...
One trial after another. Mediazona investigation finds Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia are being prosecuted again and again
Since the first year of the war, Ukrainian soldiers and officers have faced trials in Russian courts and across the annexed territories. They are tortured, held in inhumane conditi...
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 16h
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Russia Forces Former POWs Back to the Front in Ukraine Despite Geneva Ban
Russia is redeploying ex-prisoners of war back to combat, raising concerns over their treatment and violation of the Geneva Convention.
united24media.com
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 16h
"Seeing Ukrainian servicemen’s normal attitude towards him, and comparing it with the Russians’ attitude, Mohammed expressed a wish to serve for the Ukrainian forces, so that he doesn’t return to Russia to experience racial and ethnic discrimination,” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Captured Tajik tells of life on Ukraine frontlines alongside Russian forces
Russia and Ukraine have swapped thousands of PoWs, but Mohammed* says he would rather fight alongside Kyiv than go home.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 19h
Yurii Shapovalov, a doctor, spent 7 years, 7 months, and 3 days imprisoned in Russian-occupied Donetsk for his pro-Ukrainian position.

Yurii is a native of Donetsk and a physician with 30 years of experience. He worked as a neurophysiologist at the diagnostic center of the regional hospital.
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 16h
and weaponisation of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia, posing a threat to the entire continent." www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Russia locked in spiral toward terminal war economy of fossil fuels, state oppression and bloody aggression – pioneering report - Greenpeace International
Russia locked in spiral toward terminal war economy of fossil fuels, state oppression and bloody aggression – pioneering report also sends defiant signal of resistance
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 16h
"the many impacts of Putin’s militaristic petrostate – from subversion and evasion of international sanctions, to sabotage of international conventions and the military seizure
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