Six more advocates will receive financial assistance from the UNBA Board of Trustees

The UNBA Board of Trustees decided to provide financial support to six more advocates who found themselves in difficult circumstances due to the war in Ukraine. The rest were denied. A total of 12 applications were considered.

The decisions were made at a regular meeting of the UNBA Board of Trustees on September 5, 2025.

Financial support was provided to an advocate from Kharkiv who was wounded and partially lost his hearing as a result of massive shelling of the city.

Three appeals were received by the UNBA Board of Trustees from advocates who partially or completely lost their homes and property: two of them from Kherson – one house was flooded as a result of the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the other was destroyed by military action, and one from Kyiv – an apartment was destroyed by a rocket strike. All of them will receive financial support.

Two other advocates – from Kherson and Luhansk – received funds for medication. They fall under the category for which charitable assistance is provided to advocates and children of advocates who need to take essential medication on a regular basis and do not have the means to purchase such medication.

The UNBA Board of Trustees rejected six applications from advocates because they did not meet any of the approved criteria or had already received financial support.

Hanna Lazarchuk, the chairman of the UNBA Board of Trustees, called on advocates to take a measured approach to writing applications for assistance from the UNBA Board of Trustees due to limited resources. «Today, most of the applications we receive are from colleagues who have already received assistance in the past. Some are requesting funds for the same reasons, some for damaged cars... Of course, in such cases, we refuse».

H. Lazarchuk emphasized that the legal community highly appreciates the long-standing support it receives from international colleagues, including material support, and appealed to foreign partners to consider the possibility of providing assistance.