As reported by Ukrinform, the National Police confirmed the incident The attack caused damage to both the building and the surrounding area of the enterprise Firefighters extinguished the fire that broke out on the roof of the building and among stored timber products Police units from the town of Semenivka promptly arrived at the scene and documented the aftermath of the attack The incident has been recorded in the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations under Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (War Crimes) Russian forces attacked a hospital in Semenivka with strike drones drones targeted a passenger train in the same town While citing and using any materials on the Internet links to the website ukrinform.net not lower than the first paragraph are mandatory citing the translated materials of foreign media outlets is possible only if there is a link to the website ukrinform.net and the website of a foreign media outlet Materials marked as "Advertisement" or with a disclaimer reading "The material has been posted in accordance with Part 3 of Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine "On Advertising" No 1996 and the Law of Ukraine "On the Media" No 2023 and on the basis of an agreement/invoice Online media entity; Media identifier - R40-01421 This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page which reveals a similar number of jobseekers in July 2021 and July 2023 State Employment Service data shows a significant reduction in registered unemployed individuals in the same period (see figure 1) The drop appears to be too large to be accounted for by population movements alone Although it is worth noting that Business Management Organisation (BMO) KIs reported the loss of personnel due to relocation abroad/ mobilisation as the greatest challenge for their members it also seems like both men and women were less often registered with employment centers the number of female jobseekers on work.ua did not decrease but officially registered unemployed women at the Employment Centers in June 2023 are fewer as compared to June 2021 Households with older persons have reportedly been the worst affected by loss of income since February 2022 and households located in areas affected by active hostilities Rural areas also appear to have the most limited access to childcare services a further constraint on the employment prospects of caregivers Novhorod-Siverskyi was the raion in Chernihivska impacted by the largest number of conflict events between February 2022 and June 2023 An estimated 40-50% of the population has reportedly been displaced since February 2022 with a relatively high share of those subsequently returning to their homes The main employers in the area were reported to work in agricultural production (dairy and crops) wholesale of agricultural inputs (fertilisers and seeds) KIs reported that crops cultivation and dairy farming have been particularly impacted in the border areas Iuliia Mendel is a journalist, the author of “The Fight of Our Lives” and a former press secretary for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy it’s quite difficult to get to the town of Novhorod-Siverskyi in the north of Ukraine Novhorod-Siverskyi was under occupation for over a month in 2022 with the bridge across the Seim River — the main road leading into town — blown up by Ukraine on the first day of Russia’s invasion the town can now only be reached after a lengthy detour and the more thoroughly both vehicles and passengers are searched the war is much more noticeable than in it is in Kyiv Russia bombards border villages with artillery But still standing at about 10,000 residents the population of Novhorod-Siverskyi has remained roughly the same as before the invasion from time to time Ukrainian politicians would ask whether the northern border should be fortified a former Ukrainian politician and onetime ambassador of Ukraine to Belarus Russian President Vladimir Putin long considered the possibility of invading no one did anything to strengthen the border — there were always more important things to spend money on and “too much trust was placed in the agreements” between Russia and Ukraine Among those who deliberately stayed in Novhorod-Siverskyi when the town was first surrounded and then occupied is Liudmyla Tkachenko — one of Ukraine’s few female mayors — who has been vital since the war began Tkachenko never thought Russia would invade either as Russian vehicles started rolling across the border I wish someone [had] prepared me and told me what to do “The first thing that came to my mind was to tell people to find shelter I thought I could at least save some people But I kept getting calls from villagers saying that [the Russians] were coming and coming I realized that it was already war,” she said When the Russians had surrounded Novhorod-Siverskyi and the police had gone Tkachenko gathered local hunters — the only ones with weapons — and asked them to patrol the town to ensure there was no looting Her husband and son and four mayoral deputies stayed with her but “they saw that I was a woman and I stayed here they could not run away or be afraid,” she said Tkachenko tried to make sure the town continued to function as best she could She distributed gasoline to the town council and organized the delivery of food and medicine — some smuggled from neighboring regions “by guerilla means.” “There was a 16-kilometer stretch of road where the Russians were just shooting at everything that moved And our guys were catching the moments when they were resting Tkachenko comes from Ivano-Frankivsk in the west one of the regions Russia has little influence over it is predominantly Ukrainian speaking with carefully preserved Ukrainian traditions its residents dubbed “Banderas” by Russians — after the leader of the nationalist movement of the 1920s and 1940s that was mainly active in that region Russian propaganda has made a special cult of Stepan Bandera’s personality with some believing he’s still alive and leading nationalists in Ukraine even though he died in 1959 Tkachenko was told that Russians called her a Bandera girl after learning about her background sometimes trying to get her to confess to leaking Russian positions sometimes calling her a “bitch in an embroidered shirt,” sometimes threatening to “deal with” her I’m having a reception,” she shouted at them once in a fury And only then did she realize she was yelling at the occupier she and her husband organized the evacuation of about 1,000 people from Chernihiv her son’s classmate was killed by Russian shelling “It was the first time I allowed myself to cry It seemed to me that I was responsible for everyone Then I had to tell his parents about his death There was nothing more difficult than burying [people],” she recalled with tears and the end of construction was planned for 2025 Ukraine has been actively fortifying its northern border since last year’s attack including over 1,000 kilometers adjacent to Belarus And though Ukrainian authorities don’t think there will be a further attack by Russia from Belarus in the near future prudence dictates taking steps to deter any possible threat “These include barriers and various means to hinder the movement of equipment And the Armed Forces are mining the most dangerous areas to prevent the movement of heavy equipment,” Andriy Demchenko spokesman for the Ukrainian Border Guard Service Russian saboteurs are still operating along Ukraine’s northern border but Tkachenko is reassured of the lengths Kyiv is going to in order to ensure Novhorod-Siverskyi doesn’t have to endure a second occupation Few civilians were killed when the town was occupied the destruction is plain — myriad houses destroyed by ongoing Russian shelling and two of the town’s four schools razed to the ground “We are not afraid because our military is here,” Tkachenko said “But we can’t relax for even a minute because we don’t know what to expect.” And in recent weeks I’ve been traveling around trying to reconnect and to understand what’s been happening here on the ground Patients are forced to shell out for everything from hospital stays to soap reporting corruption can bring on a lawsuit “I’ll never forget what he said when he found what he was looking for: ‘Now I see it