April 23rd, 2026
70,458 people evacuated from danger to date
46 people evacuated from danger this week
24 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
Stories
Report from Nova Osokorivka
Tetiana P. reports on her trip to the villages of Stara and Nova Osokorivka in the Kherson Region, during which the team delivered 260 household supply kits to the locals.
We weren’t allowed into Nova Osokorivka itself. The situation there is very bad. Many Shahed and FPV drones are flying there and they are destroying people’s homes. The Shaheds are starting many house fires. The locals manage to put out some of them, but other houses burn completely to the ground.
The residents fight the fires on their own, because fire brigades can no longer reach them. They also repair everything themselves — they fixed the damaged water supply system, and restored the electricity. The village alderman says the locals have now become “professional electricians.” Distribution of the aid we brought took place at 5:00 a.m. People move around the village mostly in the evening and at night. In Old Osokorivka, the situation is much easier for now.
Inna’s Team Steps in after Dnipro Attacks
Russia has continued to terrorize Ukrainians in major cities. Recently, the Dnipro city center came under massive attacks. The attacks went on for several days, all around the clock. Inna’s team, which already has a well-run, established process for responding to such emergencies, set up their mobile station early in the morning. The station provided people with snacks, warm drinks, and psychological support. The volunteers helped survivors cope with their acute stress and referred them to government services, which were also present onsite.
When the World Shrinks to a Bowl of Porridge
Oleksiy P., who heads one of Oleksandr D’s network of teams in Kaniv, wrote to us about the poignant story of Oleh, a 57-year-old man with mental illness from the village of Oleksandrivka in the Kirovohrad Region. Despite his own limitations, Oleh takes care of his elderly, sick mother. They live alone with no caring relatives or friends nearby, subsisting on the mother’s tiny pension.
Their whole life is a quiet, invisible struggle for survival. Oleh's clothes are neglected and old. In his eyes there is that special kind of confusion that only people who feel lost in the vast world have.
"Is it really free?" he asked when we handed him the aid package. Oleh couldn't believe that someone had just decided to help him and his mother. But the real heartbreak happened the next day. Oleh came to meet us again, not to ask for help, but simply to say “thank you” from his mother.
“We ate so much porridge! For the first time in two months, we were able to eat without dividing one portion between the two of us."
Team Summaries
Alina’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
9 trips, evacuating 46 people from Druzhkivka, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Raihorodok, and Mykolaivka.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
The first part of the agricultural project is over with 1,200 seed packages distributed. Seedlings are next!
8,050 people received 20.3 tons of aid.
4,400 people received bread.
Aid was provided in 35 locations, including 12 high-risk areas.
Kherson team continued supporting residents in Kherson red zones, delivering fuel for four high rises, bread for 30 families, and refueling 3 generators.
Disinfected 8 buildings, including 2 large basements.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 35 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 3.5 tons humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to the village of Pidsobne in the Izium District. Visited the sick at the Roscha Sanatorium in Kharkiv and handed out Easter cakes.
Yuri P. (Boryslav): delivered a total of 2.5 tons of baby food to Obukhiv and Kaniv.
Hryhoriy M. (Tal’ne): held classes for children from large families, orphans, and children of fallen military members. The children attended a crafts master class. There was also singing and desserts. Transportation was provided for children from the surrounding villages and towns, who couldn’t get to the event on their own.
Oleksiy P. (Kaniv): received 2 pallets of rice with soy and 1 pallet of clothing and medical gloves from Oleksandr D’s team. Delivered food and clothing to a total of 310 people in Oleksandrivka in Kirovohrad Region and Kaniv, Baibuzy, Lipliave, Ozeryshche, Lytvynets, and Sushky, all in the Cherkasy Region.
Yuri S. (Vinnytsia): brought 30 kg of food and clothing to a family of 2 people with disabilities, 70 kg of clothing and fruit for 20 people with disabilities at the Harmony rehabilitation society, and 70 kg of clothing and fruit to the Vinnytsia Children's Hospital. Distributed 30 kg of food among 10 internally displaced people (IDPs)..
Oleksandr D. (Lutsk): Volunteer Vadym T. brought 1,200 kg of donated potatoes from Kamin'-Kashyrs'kyi. These were sent by mail to Inna’s NGO Krok z nadiyeyu in Dnipro, for further distribution, and to the Zhytomyr Region. for IDPs, disabled people, and families with many children.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to internally IDPs, children and adults with disabilities, orphans, elderly people, military service members, children from military families, and amputees in Lutsk, Ostrozhets', and other parts of the Rivne Region.1019 children and adults received help, including theater therapy, music therapy, zootherapy, sports activities, help with bread and other food, meals served at a social cafe, help with glasses, dental, medical, and preventive procedures, and help with the manufacture of wheelchairs for children and prostheses and rehabilitation for adults.
Karina’s Team – My ryatuyemo Ukrayinu (We Save Ukraine)
85 people in the shelter.
Tetiana’s Team – Dopomoha poruch (Help Is Near)
Distributed 160 aid packages in Odnorobivka, Kharkiv Region.
Distributed 25 packages with sweets to orphans and children with special needs in Smila.
Natasha’s Team – Volontersʹkyy tsentr Vyshnya (Cherry Volunteer Center)
Tetiana traveled to the villages of Nova Osokorivka and Stara Osokorivka, Kherson Region, delivering 260 family packages.
Natalya traveled to Sloviansk, Donetsk Region, delivering 240 packages for refugees from Lyman, Shurove and Dibrova - a small town in the gray zone.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
The team delivered aid packages to 284 seniors in Saltivka, Kharkiv.
Special deliveries to 29 disabled elderly and 18 families with infants.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
330 families received aid in Shevchenkove and Dobrokam’yanka.
6.6 tons of aid distributed.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
107 people arrived at the Volos’ke transit center.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobro Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
150 food and hygiene packages were distributed to internally displaced people in Pyatykhatky.
76 children received Easter presents.
Dina’s Team – Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 265 packages in Kaniv, Kremenchuk, and Poltava.
Served 1,150 meals in Kharkiv soup kitchen.
Delivered 350 packages of aid to Murafa and Valky in the Kharkiv Region.
Bohdan’s Team — Vse robymo sami (We Do Everything Ourselves)
42 families in Zhytomyr received food and hygiene kits.
This week at the Club for Children with Disabilities, the children attended art class.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
Distributed bread to 347 displaced families in Odesa.
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