📋 Tender Overview
The war left its mark on all aspects of Ukrainian life. Already in the first days of the Russian Federations full-scale invasion of Ukraine the question of how to organize work and create safe conditions for employees and clients of the free legal aid system in those regions that were under shelling and missile strikes was acute.After all appeals from people who need legal help do not stop coming. On the contrary they have significantly increased taking into account changes in legislation and taking into account the life circumstances of millions of Ukrainians.Of course the picture of hostilities has changed significantly in half a year. Many cities towns and villages are subject to daily shelling bombing and destruction. At the same time thousands of their residents need quality legal assistance every day. And they receive it in full from the employees of the BPD system.Of course each hot region organizes its activities according to the situation. Every day in the news there is information about new arrivals the BPD system team is working there despite everything. The Kharkiv Mykolaiv Donetsk Zaporizhzhya Dnipropetrovsk Odesa and Sumy regions can be considered as such hot regions.Kharkiv regionSince the beginning of the full-scale invasion Kharkiv Oblast has been shelled by the enemy every day. There are 12 bureaus in the region some were under occupation some were on the line of fire. Despite this employees of the BPD system continue to work.Specialists of the Bohodukhiv local center for providing BVPD Bohodukhiv Krasnokutsk and Kolomatsk legal aid bureaus work as usual. As well as Pervomaisky Zachepylivskyi Krasnogradskyi and Novovodolazsky bureaus because they are located in more or less calm areas. Other units have switched to a remote or mixed mode of operation practice trips to provide assistance in fixing damaged property and war crimes create consultation points for access to the BPD conduct online legal education events.Not only the regime and working conditions have changed but also the questions that clients ask. Today people are mostly interested in everything related to martial law and war.Lawyers who cooperate with the centers for providing BVPD of Kharkiv Region continue to provide free secondary legal assistance to clients. The availability of remote means of communication allows them to contact clients provide secondary legal assistance and participate in court sessions.Of course the war greatly affects the psychological state of our employees. What are the night climbs to the sounds of explosions and the sound of sirens sounding outside the window worth However the realization that our specialists provide people with the legal assistance they need now inspires and allows you to keep yourself in good shape even move forward. Therefore the lawyers of the system of free legal aid in Kharkiv region despite daily attacks and shelling firmly hold the legal front of our state says Ulyana Kudryk director of the Chuguyiv local center for providing BVPD.Donetsk region - ZapMost of the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions are currently occupied and under almost constant enemy fire. The BPD system in this region lost the offices of theperience of occupying the Donetsk region and working near the contact line. However this time everything is much scarier than eight years ago. Constant arrivals and sirens made it difficult to organize work in new realities. The safety of clients and our specialists is in the first place so we have changed our approach and redistributed the work says Oksana Savytska deputy director of the Regional Center for the Provision of Safety and Security in the Donetsk and Zaporizhia Regions.Zaporozhye became an outpost city. Hubs for displaced people have started operating accepting all people who were able to leave the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Donetsk Oblasts and Kherson Oblast. Currently support centers for citizens of all major cities and communities of the region that are under occupation - Melitopol Berdyansk Mariupol - are functioning in Zaporizhzhya. In each of them legal assistance is provided by specialists of the centers and the legal assistance bureau of the regional center. Many employees from the occupied territories who were able to leave for the controlled territory of Ukraine are now working side by side with their colleagues from other local centers in Zaporizhzhia Kyiv Dnipro and Kropyvnytskyi.
