April 9th, 2026
70,371 people evacuated from danger to date
44 people evacuated from danger this week
23 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
Our volunteers in Nikopol’ and Kherson are continuing their work under harrowing conditions. Both cities have come under relentless fire. Rumors - which are rampant in frontline communities - suggest that Russia’s drone units have received reinforcements, which has led to a significant increase in the number of attacks. Some of the attacks have hit close to home. In Kherson, an artillery shell blew out windows in the school building where our Kherson volunteers store aid and repair generators.
Despite the increasing risks, the volunteers have not slowed down. They have changed their routes, and their tactics — staying on the move, refueling generators inside apartment buildings, and taking other precautions. They can’t wait for the trees to become green again, as enemy drones become much less prevalent and effective when leaves block their view.
Stories
The Grisly Work of Disinfection in Kherson Apartments
One of the forms of assistance that Inna’s Krok z nadiyeyu team provides to the city of Kherson and its residents is the disinfection of premises. A team member sent us this report:
The most painful and unpleasant part of this work is carrying out disinfections in places where a person died and remained in the premises for an extended period of time. Two women, both named Svitlana, needed our help with disinfection in precisely such situations.
The first woman suffered severe poisoning and even ended up in the hospital in critical condition due to the cadaveric odor. Until we treated the apartment of the neighbor who had lived below her, she simply could not stay in her own home. The other Svitlana found herself in an identical situation, but the problem was identified sooner and the consequences were less severe.
We are encountering these problems in Kherson more and more frequently due to the significant number of elderly people who have remained in the city and live alone. In most cases, these people don't even have close neighbors who can respond in time when something goes wrong. It is a deeply painful thing to witness. A frontline city has problems unknown to other cities. Unfortunately, there are no services that help residents with these problems — we are the only ones left who help people cope with these situations.
The Last Thermal Power Plant Shuts Down in Ukrainian-Held Donetsk
The humanitarian situation in and around Sloviansk has entered a critical phase, following the closure of the Sloviansk Thermal Power Plant (TPP) on April 1st — the last operating power plant in the Ukrainian-held part of the Donetsk Region. The shutdown, due to security concerns, has removed a primary source of stability in the area, leading to a significant increase in residents seeking to leave.
In Mykolaivka, located just four and a half miles from the front lines, the population has dwindled from a pre-war 6,000 to approximately 1,500 residents — many of whom are elderly former TPP workers. The town now faces constant drone surveillance and is within range of active hostilities, making the window for safe movement increasingly narrow. Despite these escalating risks, the Dobra sprava team completed nine missions this week, successfully evacuating 43 individuals from Mykolaivka and the surrounding areas.
Team Summaries
Alina’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
9 trips, evacuating 43 people, primarily from Mykolaivka, which is roughly 4.5 or 5 miles from the frontline now and under constant drone surveillance.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
5,800 people received seed packages for spring planting. The distributions happened in Ukrainian-held Donbas, and in the Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
4,400 people received bread.
7,850 people received 20.9 tons of aid.
Aid reached 38 locations, 11 of them in high-risk zones.
The Kherson team continued to feed 33 families in Kherson danger zones, and provide fuel for 76 people living in four highrises. 2 spaces were disinfected.
A shelling occurred next to the Kramatorsk office but volunteers were unharmed.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 35 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv. Delivered food to Bila Tserkva.
Andriy P. (Mykolaiv): acquired 4 vehicles from abroad and brought them to Ukraine, filled with 4 tons of humanitarian aid, including: medicines, 1 pallet of canned food, 100 packages of diapers, 28 fire extinguishers, 25 tires, 4 pieces of furniture, 2 washing machines, 8 walkers, 10 sleeping bags, 10 boxes of hygiene, bed linens, 8 boxes of sweets, 30 pieces of clothing, 4 solar panels, 2 stoves, 3 refrigerators, 3 bicycles, 4 boxes of trench candles, and 8 boxes of tools.
Sandra S. (Odesa): the kitchen served over 650 meals.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 4 tons humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Sloviansk. Distributed almost 500 loaves of “Victory” bread in Kramatorsk. Evacuated 1 woman from Sloviansk to Poltava.
Yuri P. (Boryslav): delivered 8 tons of aid, including clothing, furniture, mattresses, medicines, and a small amount of baby food to Uman and other parts of the Cherkasy Region, as well as to Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Odesa.
Yuri S. (Vinnytsia): brought 150 kg of clothing and fruit to a rehabilitation center in Vinnytsia, 70 kg of food and clothing for a family of 4 people with disabilities, 50 kg of apples for 4 internally displaced people (IDPs), 20 kg of food and clothing for a family of 2 people with disabilities, diapers to the Harmony society for people with disabilities, and food to the Safe Space overnight shelter.
Alla A. (Kremenets’): in March 794 adults and children from vulnerable groups received food, clothing and footwear, hygiene products, diapers, and psychological support.
Oleksandr D. (Lutsk): held a spiritual, psychological and humanitarian aid program for 180 people with disabilities, IDPs, and low-income people in Lutsk. Each person also received a food kit and Oksana K. baked and 300 freshly-made hand pies.
Valeryi K. (Lutsk): distributed adult diapers and urological pads to 90 people at the team’s distribution center. However, on a routine trip to the warehouse, Valeryi was stopped and taken away to the Territorial Recruitment Center. This may affect the ability of the aid distribution center to operate for some time.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to IDP children and families, children and adults with disabilities, orphans, elderly people, military service members, children from military families and from large families, and amputees in Lutsk, Ostrozhets', and other parts of the Rivne and Volyn regions.1065 children and adults received help, including art therapy, 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, a trip to the theater, 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 150 aid packages to internally displaced refugees in Smila.
Distributed 50 aid packages to elderly and disabled in Smila, via the Department of Social Services.
Distributed 150 aid packages in the village of Ternivka, Cherkasy Region.
Delivered 120 aid packages in the village of Sinove, Volyn Region, which houses refugees from Prokrovsk.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
Distributed 263 aid packages in Saltivka, Kharkiv.
Special deliveries to 34 disabled elderly and 18 families with infants.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
556 packages delivered to the villages of Luch, Prybuz’ke, Novohryhorivka, and Posad-Pokrovs’ke.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
123 people arrived at Volos’ke transit shelter.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobro Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
150 food and hygiene packages were distributed to internally displaced people in Zhovti Vody.
8 packages were sent to families with disabled children in different parts of Ukraine.
Dina’s Team – Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 428 packages of aid in Kremenchuk, Kanev, Poltava, and Dnipro.
Brought 3 tons of aid from NGO Kengurush in Kyiv to Kremenchuk.
17 people in Kremenchuk received free legal consultations regarding their displaced status.
Served 1,500 meals in the soup kitchen in Kharkiv.
Distributed 500 packages of aid in Kharkiv to IDP’s from Kup’yans’k and Vovchans’k.
Bohdan’s Team — Vse robymo sami (We Do Everything Ourselves)
Food and hygiene kits were distributed to 42 families in Zhytomyr.
At the Club for Children with Disabilities, children attended fine arts and culinary classes.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
Delivered 250 kits of household chemicals and hygiene products to Kherson.
Provided bread for 500 people and baby food for 22 children in Nadezhdivka.
Delivered baby food for a total of 20 children across the villages of Zorivka, Znam'yanka, and Chereshen’ky.
Supplied baby food kits to 240 children and large containers of laundry detergent to multi-child families in Myroliubivka.
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