Aus Luxemburg wurde folgende humanitäre Hilfe in die Ukraine an das Frauen- und Kinderheim in Iwano-Frankiwsk geschickt, in dem überwiegend Binnenflüchtlinge aus den Kriegsgebieten untergebracht sind: Kleidung, Schuhe für Kinder und Erwachsene, Bettwäsche und Decken.
Die Lieferung wurde am 25. März 2025 von den Verantwortlichen des Zentrums in Empfang genommen.
It was with great sorrow that we received the news on Saturday 15 March that our friend Oleksij Savkevich had died on the front line on Tuesday 11 March. He had decided in September 2024 to join the Ukrainian army to defend his country from Russian aggression. His unit was defending the territories of south-eastern Ukraine.
The leaders of the association ‘Ad Pacem servandam – For Peace and Against War’ had been friends with Oleksij’s family since aid had been organised in 2019 to support a project in Avdiivka, where Oleksij had been living since leaving Donetsk, where he had studied at university. He was a political scientist by training. After the Russian army occupied Donetsk in 2015, Oleksij and his wife founded a patriotic youth movement in Avdiivka. They had also organised a Ukrainian Festival in the same city on several occasions. The last time was in 2021, before the city was completely destroyed and occupied by the Russian army.
For his visit in 2019, we organised a charity concert at the church of Notre-Dame in Villerupt (France) to finance musical instruments for the youth group that Oleksij had formed and which was going to perform at the music festival in Avdiivka.
On the same occasion, he had visited classes at the Lycée de Garçons in Esch-sur-Alzette (L) where he had given a testimony on how his country had been invaded by the Russian army since 2014 and the consequences this had for Ukrainians.
He gave interviews to Luxemburger Wort, tageblatt and Radio Jéricho in Metz.
Our Ad Pacem committee extends its sincere condolences to his wife Svitlana, his children Danil and Marijka and his entire family.
With the money raised at the Christmas market in Differdange in December 2024, the association Ad Pacem bought two large solid wood cupboards for the women’s and children’s refuge centre in Ivano-Frankivsk, as well as basic food items. The management of the refuge and all its residents express their sincere gratitude for the help provided.
The association Ad Pacem used the funds raised at the Differdange (L) Christmas market in December 2024 to buy school stationery and craft materials for the Bereginya children’s club in Kropyvnytskyi. This group brings together children displaced from the occupied territories of the Donetsk region by the Russian army. The school teachers, 90% of whom are themselves displaced persons, try to help the children overcome the negative effects of the traumatic events they have experienced. They help them adapt to the new circumstances of their lives through art therapy and various handicrafts based on the folk traditions and artistic culture of the Ukrainian people.
Children from the Greek-Catholic parish in Berezhany (Western Ukraine) helped to make the decorations that were sold at the Christmas Market in Differdange (L) from 29 November to 22 December 2024. Many of them are internal refugees from territories at war or occupied by Russia in the east and south of the country.
On 6 January, the Ad Pacem association sent them sweets as presents.
Children from the Greek-Catholic parish in Berezhany (Western Ukraine) helped to make the decorations that were sold at the Christmas Market in Differdange (L) from 29 November to 22 December 2024. Many of them are internal refugees from territories at war or occupied by Russia in the east and south of the country.
On 6 January, the Ad Pacem association sent them sweets as presents.
Sent from Luxembourg on 19 November 2024, our aid (six cardboard boxes) was received by our co-operator on 26 November 2024 at the Kharkiv hospital. The shipment contained bandages of various sizes, several post-operative kits, surgical masks, some orthoses and tubes and catheters for enteral feeding.
The Ad Pacem association bought 100 kg of paraffin in Ukraine for the school in Kropyvnyckyj (western Ukraine). The school’s pupils used the paraffin to make candles that were sent to the front where they are used by soldiers in the trenches. The majority of these pupils are internal refugees from Kramatorsk, a town in the east of the country close to the front line.
On Tuesday 19 November 2024 Claude Pantaleoni, president of the association, received a cheque for €2,000 from the committee of the Syndicat National des Enseignants SNE/CGFP at its headquarters in Luxembourg-Bonnevoie.
The money is earmarked for humanitarian aid projects financed by the association in Ukraine at the ‘Misto Dobra’ (Chernivtsi) and ‘Refuge for mothers and children’ (Ivano-Frankivsk) centres for victims of the war.
In the photo (left to right): Gilles GLESENER (General Secretary), Patrick REMAKEL (Chairman), Claude PANTALEONI, Claude RIES, Vanessa SCHETGEN (1st Vice-Chairman), Christian KOHNEN
What we do – chronology
This section gives a chronological overview of what we have been doing since 24 February 2022: our interventions in the media, our participation in the demonstrations against the Russian military occupation, sending aid to Ukraine for refugees, accompanying refugee families.
Aus Luxemburg wurde folgende humanitäre Hilfe in die Ukraine an das Frauen- und Kinderheim in Iwano-Frankiwsk geschickt, in dem überwiegend Binnenflüchtlinge aus den Kriegsgebieten untergebracht sind: Kleidung, Schuhe für Kinder und Erwachsene, Bettwäsche und Decken.
Die Lieferung wurde am 25. März 2025 von den Verantwortlichen des Zentrums in Empfang genommen.
It was with great sorrow that we received the news on Saturday 15 March that our friend Oleksij Savkevich had died on the front line on Tuesday 11 March. He had decided in September 2024 to join the Ukrainian army to defend his country from Russian aggression. His unit was defending the territories of south-eastern Ukraine.
The leaders of the association ‘Ad Pacem servandam – For Peace and Against War’ had been friends with Oleksij’s family since aid had been organised in 2019 to support a project in Avdiivka, where Oleksij had been living since leaving Donetsk, where he had studied at university. He was a political scientist by training. After the Russian army occupied Donetsk in 2015, Oleksij and his wife founded a patriotic youth movement in Avdiivka. They had also organised a Ukrainian Festival in the same city on several occasions. The last time was in 2021, before the city was completely destroyed and occupied by the Russian army.
For his visit in 2019, we organised a charity concert at the church of Notre-Dame in Villerupt (France) to finance musical instruments for the youth group that Oleksij had formed and which was going to perform at the music festival in Avdiivka.
On the same occasion, he had visited classes at the Lycée de Garçons in Esch-sur-Alzette (L) where he had given a testimony on how his country had been invaded by the Russian army since 2014 and the consequences this had for Ukrainians.
He gave interviews to Luxemburger Wort, tageblatt and Radio Jéricho in Metz.
Our Ad Pacem committee extends its sincere condolences to his wife Svitlana, his children Danil and Marijka and his entire family.
with the money raised at the Christmas market in Differdange in December 2024, the association Ad Pacem bought two large solid wood cupboards for the women’s and children’s refuge centre in Ivano-Frankivsk, as well as basic food items. The management of the refuge and all its residents express their sincere gratitude for the help provided.
The association Ad Pacem used the funds raised at the Differdange (L) Christmas market in December 2024 to buy school stationery and craft materials for the Bereginya children’s club in Kropyvnytskyi. This group brings together children displaced from the occupied territories of the Donetsk region by the Russian army. The school teachers, 90% of whom are themselves displaced persons, try to help the children overcome the negative effects of the traumatic events they have experienced. They help them adapt to the new circumstances of their lives through art therapy and various handicrafts based on the folk traditions and artistic culture of the Ukrainian people.
Children from the Greek-Catholic parish in Berezhany (Western Ukraine) helped to make the decorations that were sold at the Christmas Market in Differdange (L) from 29 November to 22 December 2024. Many of them are internal refugees from territories at war or occupied by Russia in the east and south of the country.
On 6 January, the Ad Pacem association sent them sweets as presents.
From Friday 29 November to Sunday 22 December 2024, the association Ad Pacem servandam – Pour la Paix et contre la guerre asbl. was present at the Christmas Market in Differdange, renting a chalet. Visitors could buy a range of decorations for Advent, Christmas and the festive season. The decorations were made by a Ukrainian woman whose family fled Donbass in 2015, following the Russian invasion, to settle in western Ukraine.
Proceeds from the sales will go to help the Refuge for Women and Children in Ivano-Frankivsk, many of whom have fled the war-torn territories..
The Ad Pacem association bought 100 kg of paraffin in Ukraine for the school in Kropyvnyckyj (western Ukraine). The school’s pupils used the paraffin to make candles that were sent to the front where they are used by soldiers in the trenches. The majority of these pupils are internal refugees from Kramatorsk, a town in the east of the country close to the front line.
On Tuesday 19 November 2024 Claude Pantaleoni, president of the association, received a cheque for €2,000 from the committee of the Syndicat National des Enseignants SNE/CGFP at its headquarters in Luxembourg-Bonnevoie.
The money is earmarked for humanitarian aid projects financed by the association in Ukraine at the ‘Misto Dobra’ (Chernivtsi) and ‘Refuge for mothers and children’ (Ivano-Frankivsk) centres for victims of the war.
In the photo (left to right): Gilles GLESENER (General Secretary), Patrick REMAKEL (Chairman), Claude PANTALEONI, Claude RIES, Vanessa SCHETGEN (1st Vice-Chairman), Christian KOHNEN
Sent from Luxembourg on 19 November 2024, our aid (six cardboard boxes) was received by our co-operator on 26 November 2024 at the Kharkiv hospital. The shipment contained bandages of various sizes, several post-operative kits, surgical masks, some orthoses and tubes and catheters for enteral feeding.
The child Lubomir, from a refugee family from the Donbass, had to undergo an urgent operation on these two days in the hospital in Dnipro. He underwent an urgent operation for acute inflammation of the paranasal sinuses. The operation was paid for by Ad Pacem servandam.
A concertino has been organised by the Ad Pacem association in Italy in the town of Pergola (Province of Pesaro Urbino). Laura and Daniel Pantaleoni interpreted a number of classical and romantic works. Donations raised went towards the purchase of medicines for the psychiatric hospital in Vorzel, near Kyiv.
Dispatch from Luxembourg and receipt at the Ivano Frankivsk refugee centre of medical equipment (toilet chair,two walkers, several pairs of crutches), and clothing and footwear for the winter.
Our development worker uses the money from the sale of the 2024 calendars to buy and deliver the medicines needed by the psychiatric hospital in Vorzel (Ukraine).
The renovation of the intensive therapy room is complete. They were financed with the proceeds from the sale of the 2024 calendar.
A concertino has been organised by the Ad Pacem association in Italy in the town of Serra Sant Abbondio (Province of Pesaro Urbino). Laura, Daniel and Michel Pantaleoni interpreted a number of classical and romantic works. Donations raised went towards the purchase of medicines for the psychiatric hospital in Vorzel, near Kyiv.
Natalya visits the hospital in Vorzel. On this day, the medicines needed for the therapies and purchased shortly beforehand were handed over. All the medicines purchased were paid for with the proceeds from the sale of the 2024 calendar.
This was followed by a tour of the intensive therapy room, the renovation of which is being financed entirely by Ad Pacem.The work had not yet been completed by mid-July.
Over these two days, our vice-president Natalya has met three former inmates of the ‘Izolyaziya’ concentration camp in Donetzk, Andrij Kochmuradov, Vitalij Sokolov and Valerij Matjuschenko. This camp is run by the Russian occupation forces in the occupied Donbas. Regular torture is commonplace. Valerij Matjushenko was only released at the beginning of July 2024 as part of the prisoner exchange. As a result of the torture, all three, along with Andrij Kochmuradov’s wife Olena Lazareva, suffer from serious health problems including joint, dental, heart and circulatory problems. They receive financial support from Ad Pacem for medical treatment and the purchase of medicines.
Kochmuradov and Sokolov said that having been in prison caused them major problems when looking for work. Employers are discouraged and resent the fact that they were political prisoners, even though they were later found innocent by Ukrainian courts. Sokolov is now working as a guard, while Kochmuradov is still unemployed.
Letter from Valerij Matjuschenko:
On 15 July 2017, Mr Valeriy Mykolayovych Matyushenko was abducted by agents of the ‘Ministry of State Security’ (FSB) of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and spent 7 years in captivity. He was released in an exchange on 28 June 2024. Here is his story:
‘I, Valeriy Mykolayovych Matyushenko, born in 1965, Ukrainian, resident of Komsomolske, Starobeshevo district, Donetsk region, am married and have one son.
On 15 July 2017, I left my flat to join my wife, who was at the school where our son was enrolled, preparing the class for the next school year.
I opened my car and at that moment I saw a white Volkswagen minibus with a few people inside. As I was about to leave, four men came up to me, handcuffed me and put a plastic bag over my head. They dragged me into the minibus and took me somewhere.
I found myself in a room and was told that I was suspected of spying for Ukraine.
I was in the ‘DPR MGB’ (FSB).
The IZOLYATSIA torture chamber in Donezk. There were many other people in this prison or concentration camp.
I was first thrown into a small room. It had no windows and measured about one metre by two metres. I can’t say how long I was there. There was a light on all the time and there was a surveillance camera. Then I was transferred to the basement. It was cold in the basement. I was given food twice a day, at 7am and 7pm. They gave me boiled cereals without bread.
About three days later, at 2am, I was taken out of the cell and three men started beating me.
I can’t say how long they beat me. Then they dragged me to another basement. There they hooked me up to electric wires and started torturing me with electric shocks. After that, they took me back to the cell. My teeth were knocked out, three ribs were broken and I slept sitting up for over a month.
The beatings continued almost every day. I’ve had an illness since childhood:
I suffer from Tourette’s syndrome, which worsened after the torture. On the nervous side, I developed thyroid problems. Hard work caused an inguinal hernia, which was operated on after my return.
I needed dentures.
After torture and interrogation, I was sentenced by the ‘DPR military court’ to 10 years of strict confinement for spying for Ukraine.
I remained in this ‘isolation’ for ten months. Then I was transferred to the Donetsk pre-trial detention centre. After three weeks in the pre-trial detention centre, I was transferred to high-regime colony no. 32 in Minsk, where I was held until 28 June 2024, when I was released.
On 28 June 2024, I arrived in Kiev by helicopter. I was immediately taken from the airport to the regional hospital, where I stayed for a fortnight. I’ve now been in another hospital for a month to get my disability certificate. I have a lot of problems, including financial problems. I’m asking your association if it’s possible to help me financially to get back into shape and to buy the medicines I need.
Yours sincerely’.
Valery Matyushenko
Mrs Ponomarenko, head of the psychiatric hospital in Vorzel (Ukraine), receives the medicines purchased thanks to a donation from a Kiwanis club in Luxembourg.
Visit of our Vice President Natalya to ‘Misto dobra’ – City of goodness in Chernivtzi.
The pre-planned meeting with the founder of ‘Misto Dobra’ was unfortunately cancelled. The previous day, the ‘Ochmadit’ children’s hospital in Kyiv was hit by a Russian missile. Two children from the ‘Misto Dobra’ home were in there at the time and were about to undergo an oncological operation. The founder, Mrs Marta Levchenko, therefore had to travel urgently to Kyiv. Natalya was able to visit the entire ‘Misto Dobra’ centre with one of Mrs Levchenko’s employees. Many children from evacuated children’s homes in Odessa and Mykolayiv (southern Ukraine) are housed here. The home has rehabilitation rooms for sick and disabled children and a palliative care unit. With financial help from Ad Pacem, tracheostomy and gastrostomy tubes and catheters were purchased here. A computer and monitor were also purchased to monitor the condition of a seriously ill child during transport to hospital.
Visit by our Vice President Natalya to a shelter for mothers and children in Ivano-Frankivsk (Western Ukraine).
Of the 37 women and children currently living in the shelter, three quarters are internal refugees from eastern and southern Ukraine. Among them are also victims of rape by Russian soldiers.
The home mainly provides a home for women who have small children and are unable to pay rent. The women are given work in a chicken farm and the children can go to school and kindergarten. Smaller children are looked after in the home. As soon as the women are financially better off, they rent a flat on their own.. In cases where women and/or their children have illnesses, disabilities or war trauma, their stay in the home is not limited in time.
Due to the constant Russian missile strikes, the Ukrainian energy grid functions very poorly. Electricity is switched off for many hours a day as planned. The purchase of an electric battery station for this home was therefore of paramount importance. Ad Pacem financed the purchase of such a battery station. This was installed in the home at the end of August 2024.
Shipment from Luxembourg of 2 toilet chairs, 1 wheelchair and several pairs of crutches for the internal refugee centre in Dnipro.
The equipment was received on 28 June.
Shipment from Luxembourg of medicines and equipment (enteral food for the war-wounded, catheters, antiseptic dressings, post-operative kits, masks and jackets for surgeons) for the Kharkiv hospital.Our shipment was received by the hospital on 18 June.
Dispatch from Luxembourg on 8 June and receipt in Dnipro on 12 June of clothing, footwear and hygiene products for the Internal Refugee Centre.
The Kharkiv hospital received 44 sets of Certofix Mono single-channel venous catheters purchased by the Ad Pacem association.
Kharkiv hospital receives 26 sets of Certofix Duo central venous catheters purchased by the Ad Pacem association.
On the same day, medicines were purchased in Kyiv for soldiers and civilians suffering from war trauma who are being treated at the Vorzel hospital in Ukraine.The money came from a grant from the town of Differdange (L)
Clothing, sheets, antiseptics and dressings were sent from Luxembourg on 30 March. They were received at the refugee centre in Dnipro on 4 April and distributed to those in need.
On 23 March, from Luxembourg were sent post-operative dressings, antiseptics, enteral nutrition, orthopaedic cushion and equipment for bed-ridden people were sent. These were received at the Kharkiv hospital on 28 March.
Production of trench candles by the children of Berezhany. The paraffin for the candles was bought by our association in Ukraine. Once made, the candles were delivered at the end of January to the soldiers at the front. In the trenches, they are used to heat food, warm cold hands, provide some light, dry small items of clothing, etc.
14 November 2023. On 30 October 2023, the Vorzel psychiatric hospital in Ukraine received the medicines purchased thanks to donations received following our appeal in Newsletter 27. The hospital obtained antidepressants, neuroleptics, anticonvulsants, hynoptics and anxiolytics.
Ces derniers jours la situation de guerre s’est dramatiquement empirée en Ukraine. Des millions d’Ukrainiens sont sur les routes et beaucoup d’autres se préparent à fuir les bombardements russes sur les centres habités et sur les populations civiles.
Vous pouvez aider des deux manières suivantes :
Nous cherchons des familles ou des personnes qui sont prêtes à accueillir chez elles ou dans une de leurs maisons/appartements libres des familles composées :
Veuillez nous écrire sur [email protected] si vous voulez et avez une possibilité d’accueillir une telle famille.
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Un grand merci pour votre aide aux réfugiés et blessés de la guerre en Ukraine.
Claude Pantaleoni
Président
En tant qu’association Ad Pacem nous organisons en ce moment une aide humanitaire pour les (réfugiés) Ukrainiens qui se trouvent dans l’ouest du pays.
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Claude Pantaleoni
Président
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The child Lubomir, from a refugee family from the Donbass, had to undergo an urgent operation on these two days in the hospital in Dnipro. He underwent an urgent operation for acute inflammation of the paranasal sinuses. The operation was paid for by Ad Pacem servandam.
A concertino has been organised by the Ad Pacem association in Italy in the town of Pergola (Province of Pesaro Urbino). Laura and Daniel Pantaleoni interpreted a number of classical and romantic works. Donations raised went towards the purchase of medicines for the psychiatric hospital in Vorzel, near Kyiv.
Dispatch from Luxembourg and receipt at the Ivano Frankivsk refugee centre of medical equipment (toilet chair,two walkers, several pairs of crutches), and clothing and footwear for the winter.
Our development worker uses the money from the sale of the 2024 calendars to buy and deliver the medicines needed by the psychiatric hospital in Vorzel (Ukraine).
The renovation of the intensive therapy room is complete. They were financed with the proceeds from the sale of the 2024 calendar.
